86P/Wild
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86P/Wild (pronounced 86P/Vilt) is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 6.84 years. Its nucleus is estimated to have an effective radius of 0.37 ± 0.02 kilometers.
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- Diameter
- 0.86
- Orbital period
- 2500.526389688088
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1980-05-00
- provisional designation
- 1980d
- absolute magnitude
- 17.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3721913239191914
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.605415683874885
- periapsis
- 2.263511247214475
- apoapsis
- 4.947320120535296
- orbital inclination
- 15.47206372065769
- longitude of ascending node
- 72.39419568437434
- argument of periapsis
- 179.1867364073657
- mean anomaly
- 81.70492448506307
- time of periapsis
- 2457115.98522266
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86P/Wild (pronounced 86P/Vilt) is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 6.84 years. Its nucleus is estimated to have an effective radius of 0.37 ± 0.02 kilometers.
It was discovered on photographic plates exposed on 11/12 April 1980 by Paul Wild of the Astronomical Institute of University of Bern, Switzerland at the nearby Zimmerwald Observatory. He reported the brightness at a magnitude of 15.5 and that the comet was diffuse. He rediscovered it on 7 May 1980 and calculations by Brian G. Marsden estimated that perihelion would take place on 6 October 1980.