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65P/Gunn

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.

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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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Physical characteristics
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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.