Key facts
- Discovered by
- Richard M. West
- Discovery site
- European Southern Observatory
- Discovery date
- 10 August 1975
- Alternative designations
- 1976 VI, 1975n
- Epoch
- 10 May 1976 ( JD 2442908.5)
- Observation arc
- 199 days
- Aphelion
- 1,500 AU (inbound)
- Perihelion
- 0.197 AU
- Orbital period
- ~558,000 years
- Inclination
- 43.074°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 118.92°
- Argument of periapsis
- 358.43°
- Last perihelion
- 25 February 1976
- Earth moid
- 0.555 AU
- Jupiter moid
- 1.194 AU
- Mean radius
- 1.485 km (0.923 mi)
- Apparent magnitude
- –3.0, (1976 apparition)
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- Image
- C-west-1976-ps.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1975-00-00
- Commons category
- Comet West (C/1975 V1)
- absolute magnitude
- 4.4
- orbital eccentricity
- 1.000016
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 12220
- periapsis
- 0.196595
- orbital inclination
- 43.074
- longitude of ascending node
- 118.9175346769632
- argument of periapsis
- 358.4317208087168
- mean anomaly
- 0.00005455779729386018
- time of periapsis
- 2442833.7219778746
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Comet West, formally designated as C/1975 V1, 1976 VI, and 1975n, was a comet described as one of the brightest objects to pass through the inner Solar System in 1976. It is often described as a "great comet". Reports indicate it could be seen in daylight.
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