88P/Howell is a periodic comet with a 5.5 year orbital period. It was discovered on 29 August 1981, by Ellen Howell. In 1975 the comet's perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) was 1.9 AU, but a close approach to Jupiter in 1978 perturbed the perihelion distance closer to the Sun. During the 2009 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 8.
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88P/Howell is a periodic comet with a 5.5 year orbital period. It was discovered on 29 August 1981, by Ellen Howell. In 1975 the comet's perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) was 1.9 AU, but a close approach to Jupiter in 1978 perturbed the perihelion distance closer to the Sun. During the 2009 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 8.
It came to perihelion on 6 April 2015 and 26 September 2020 and will next come to perihelion on 18 March 2026. On 14 September 2031 the comet will pass from Mars. Between 2000–2050 the closest the comet will come to Earth is in June 2042.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).