59P/Kearns–Kwee is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 9.49 years.
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59P/Kearns–Kwee is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 9.49 years.
== Observational history == It was discovered by Charles E. Kearns and Kiem King Kwee on a photographic plate taken on 17 August 1963 during a search for the then-lost comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, and was later confirmed by Elizabeth Roemer at the US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station in Arizona. She estimated its brightness at a faint magnitude of 16. The perihelion was initially calculated as 28 October 1963 and the periodicity as 8.48 years, but calculations based on further observations revised the data to 7 December and 8.95 years.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).