63P/Wild
Sign in to save63P/Wild is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 13.21 years. It will next come to perihelion on 6 July 2026.
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It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1960, Comets in 2013 and Comets in 2026.
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Key facts
- Comet.name
- 63P/Wild
- Comet.image
- 63P 2013-04-04 PTF ImageDownload-3-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-wpzq9---1.png
- Comet.caption
- Comet Wild 1 taken from the Palomar Transient Factory on 4 April 2013
- Comet.discoverer
- Paul Wild
- Comet.discovery_site
- Zimmerwald Observatory, Switzerland
- Comet.discovery_date
- 26 March 1960
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1960 G1P/1973 A2
- Comet.designations
- Wild 11960b, 1973c1960 I, 1973 VIII
- Comet.epoch
- 1 March 2014 (JD 2456717.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 19,491 days (53.36 years)
- Comet.obs
- 1,948
- Comet.semimajor
- 5.5877 AU
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.9506 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 9.2249 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.65092
- Comet.period
- 13.21 years
- Comet.inclination
- 19.780°
- Comet.asc_node
- 358.002°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- periodic comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.9
- Orbital period
- 4824.517313185734
- Image
- 63P 2013-04-04 PTF ImageDownload-3-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-wpzq9---1.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Paul Wild
- time of discovery or invention
- 1960-03-26
- provisional designation
- 1960b
- absolute magnitude
- 6.5
- epoch
- March 1, 2014
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6509190323024351
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 5.587749927389681
- periapsis
- 1.950577151905188
- apoapsis
- 9.224922702874174
- orbital inclination
- 19.77997964011996
- longitude of ascending node
- 358.0018642381609
- argument of periapsis
- 169.0295202220291
- mean anomaly
- 24.1890970612711
- time of periapsis
- 2456393.3313401043
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- See also
- References
- External links
63P/Wild is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 13.21 years. It will next come to perihelion on 6 July 2026.
== Observational history == It was first detected by Paul Wild at the Zimmerwald Observatory of the Astronomical Institute of Bern, Switzerland on a photographic plate exposed on 26 March 1960, who estimated its brightness at a magnitude of 14.3. Its elliptical orbit was then calculated to have an orbital period of 13.17 years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “63P/Wild” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.