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58P/Jackson–Neujmin

58P/Jackson–Neujmin is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 8.19 years.

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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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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.