94P/Russell
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94P/Russell 4 is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
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- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2403.341258455173
- Image
- 94p-2010Feb19-11UT.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Kenneth S. Russell
- time of discovery or invention
- 1984-03-07
- provisional designation
- 94P/1989g1
- absolute magnitude
- 13.4
- rotation period
- 20.7
- epoch
- March 10, 2014
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3640907405016965
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.511381447185638
- periapsis
- 2.232919975895901
- apoapsis
- 4.789842918475376
- orbital inclination
- 6.184093129147321
- longitude of ascending node
- 70.90253514243683
- argument of periapsis
- 92.67932276011142
- mean anomaly
- 215.7769715371815
- time of periapsis
- 2457689.325429789
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94P/Russell 4 is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
== Observational history == It was discovered by Kenneth S. Russell on photographic plates taken by M. Hawkins on March 7, 1984. In the discovery images, Russell estimated that the comet had an apparent magnitude of 13 and a noticeable tail of 5 arcminutes. In the year of discovery, the comet had come to perihelion in January 1984.
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