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.
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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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.