144P/Kushida
Sign in to save144P/Kushida is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Yoshio Kushida in January 1994. This was the first comet discovery of 1994 and his second discovery within a month. It last came to perihelion on 25 January 2024, and brightened to about magnitude 10.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 144P/Kushida
- Comet.image
- 144PKushidaHunterWilson.jpg
- Comet.caption
- Comet Kushida photographed by Hunter Wilson on 16 January 2009
- Comet.discoverer
- Yoshio Kushida
- Comet.discovery_site
- Yatsugatake, Japan
- Comet.discovery_date
- 8 January 1994
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1994 A1, P/2000 O2
- Comet.designations
- 1993 XX, 1994a
- Comet.epoch
- 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 30.41 years
- Comet.earliest_precovery_date
- 7 January 1994
- Comet.obs
- 5,919
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.399 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 6.269 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.834 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.63495
- Comet.period
- 7.509 years
- Comet.inclination
- 3.931°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2728.078173588499
- Image
- 144PKushidaHunterWilson.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Yoshio Kushida
- Commons category
- 144P/Kushida
- time of discovery or invention
- 1994-01-08
- provisional designation
- 1993 XX
- absolute magnitude
- 14.5
- epoch
- August 30, 2021
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6359015654269426
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.820957930563162
- periapsis
- 1.391204801087556
- apoapsis
- 6.250711060038768
- orbital inclination
- 3.937412540766657
- longitude of ascending node
- 243.225439543146
- argument of periapsis
- 216.2890274383694
- mean anomaly
- 244.0307446778095
- time of periapsis
- 2460335.314428477
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144P/Kushida is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Yoshio Kushida in January 1994. This was the first comet discovery of 1994 and his second discovery within a month. It last came to perihelion on 25 January 2024, and brightened to about magnitude 10.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 0.9em;" |+144P/Kushida closest Mars approach on 2119-May-18 ! Date & time ofclosest approach ! Mars distance(AU) ! Sun distance(AU) ! Velocitywrt Mars(km/s) ! Velocitywrt Sun(km/s) ! Uncertaintyregion(3-sigma) ! Reference |- | 2119-May-17 11:19 ± 13 minutes || || || 13.6 || 28.6 || ± 13 thousand km || Horizons |}
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