65P/Gunn
Sign in to save65P/Gunn is a periodic comet in the Solar System orbiting the Sun every 6.41 years inside the main asteroid belt between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
Key facts
- Comet.asc_node
- 136.09°
- Comet.name
- 65P/Gunn
- Comet.image
- Comet 65P Gunn WISE.jpg
- Comet.caption
- Infrared image of Gunn's Comet taken from the WISE observatory on 11 June 2010.
- Comet.discoverer
- James E. Gunn
- Comet.discovery_site
- Palomar Observatory
- Comet.discovery_date
- 17 October 1970
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1954 P1, P/1970 U2
- Comet.epoch
- 17 October 2024 (JD 2460600.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 71.13 years
- Comet.earliest_precovery_date
- 8 August 1954
- Comet.obs
- 7,963
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.597 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 4.737 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.453 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.3194
- Comet.period
- 6.414 years
- Comet.inclination
- 3.237°
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65P/Gunn is a periodic comet in the Solar System orbiting the Sun every 6.41 years inside the main asteroid belt between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
== Observational history == It was discovered on 11 October 1970 by James E. Gunn of Princeton University using the 122-cm Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory. It had a low brightness of magnitude 16 at that time. In 1972, Elizabeth Roemer managed to observe 65P/Gunn close to aphelion.
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