58P/Jackson–Neujmin
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Key facts
- Comet.name
- 58P/Jackson–Neujmin
- Comet.image
- 58P_2020-08-02_image_ZTF-sso-510-zr-fov-7.0arcmin.png
- Comet.caption
- Comet Jackson–Neujmin photographed from the Zwicky Transient Facility on 2 August 2020
- Comet.discoverer
- Cyril JacksonGrigory N. Neujmin
- Comet.discovery_site
- Union, South AfricaSimeis, Crimea
- Comet.discovery_date
- 20–21 September 1936
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1936 S1, P/1970 R1
- Comet.epoch
- 13 September 2023 (JD 2460200.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 50.16 years
- Comet.obs
- 508
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.379 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 6.798 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.089 AU
- Comet.period
- 8.268 years
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.66257
- Comet.inclination
- 13.105°
- Comet.asc_node
- 159.07°
- Comet.arg_peri
- 200.54°
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- Observational history
- See also
- References
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58P/Jackson–Neujmin is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 8.19 years.
== Observational history == The comet was discovered on a photographic plate on 20 September 1936 by Cyril Jackson of the Union Observatory, South Africa, who described it as faint and diffuse, with a brightness of magnitude 12. On the following day Grigory N. Neujmin of the Simeis Observatory in Crimea discovered it independently. Fernand Rigaux of the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium then also found it on an earlier photographic plate exposed on 9 September 1936.
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