62P/Tsuchinshan

Also known as Tsuchinshan 1

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat different epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 1800 || 2.45 |- | 1859 || 2.11 |- | 1882 || 2.04 |- | 1905 || 1.96 |- | 1965 || 1.49 |- | 2011 || 1.38 |- | 2023 || 1.26 |- | 2036 || 1.36 |- | 2094 || 1.21 |- | 2106 || 1.15 |}

Key facts

Comet.name: 62P/Tsuchinshan 1
Comet.image: 62P 2018-01-14 NEOWISE image 3-color.png
Comet.caption: NEOWISE image 14 January 2018(The comet appears red because it was imaged in infrared)
Comet.discoverer: Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing
Comet.discovery_date: January 1, 1965
Comet.epoch: 2024-01-11(JD 2460320.5)
Comet.semimajor: 3.369 AU (a)
Comet.perihelion: 1.265 AU (q)
Comet.aphelion: 5.472 AU (Q)
Comet.eccentricity: 0.6245
Comet.period: 6.18 yr
Comet.inclination: 10.50°

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62P/Tsuchinshan, also known as Tsuchinshan 1, is a periodic comet first discovered January 1, 1965 at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing. It last came to perihelion on 25 December 2023 at around apparent magnitude 8, and was then from Earth and 110 degrees from the Sun.