59P/Kearns–Kwee
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Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1963, JPL Small-Body Database ID same as Wikidata and Jupiter-family comets.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 1.58
- Orbital period
- 3476.313387431248
- Image
- 59P 2019-01-31 image ZTF-sso-616-zr-fov-4.0arcmin.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1963-08-17
- provisional designation
- 1963 VIII
- absolute magnitude
- 10.4
- epoch
- November 4, 2013
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4763782272378256
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.491040753341285
- periapsis
- 2.351606720811735
- apoapsis
- 6.630474785870835
- orbital inclination
- 9.342960626491518
- longitude of ascending node
- 312.8602150427647
- argument of periapsis
- 127.7454662545714
- mean anomaly
- 176.0876919334699
- time of periapsis
- 2454900.122219916
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- Physical characteristics
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “59P/Kearns–Kwee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.