92P/Sanguin
Sign in to save92P/Sanguin, also called '''Sanguin's Comet or Comet Sanguin''', is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 1977, by Juan G. Sanguin at Leoncito Astronomical Complex.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.38
- Orbital period
- 4530.49732343898
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- discoverer or inventor
- Juan G. Sanguin
- time of discovery or invention
- 1977-10-15
- provisional designation
- 1977p
- absolute magnitude
- 11.1
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6593254789566613
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 5.358356865937731
- periapsis
- 1.825455658882622
- apoapsis
- 8.89125807299284
- orbital inclination
- 19.44460631112987
- longitude of ascending node
- 181.4589164241891
- argument of periapsis
- 163.7890342412169
- mean anomaly
- 23.26762816786203
- time of periapsis
- 2457082.68353573
- epoch
- December 19, 2015
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92P/Sanguin, also called '''Sanguin's Comet or Comet Sanguin''', is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 1977, by Juan G. Sanguin at Leoncito Astronomical Complex.
== Physical characteristics == Initial estimates suggest that the comet completes a single rotation approximately once every 6 days, however this was revised to just only 6.2 hours.
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