238P/Read
Sign in to save238P/Read (P/2005 U1) is a main-belt comet discovered on 24 October 2005 by astronomer Michael T. Read using the Spacewatch 36-inch telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory. It has an orbit within the asteroid belt and has displayed the coma of a traditional comet. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a Jupiter).
Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 0.6
- Orbital period
- 2057.81014215325
- Image
- Comet 238P Read (NIRCam Image).png
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- Commons category
- 238P/Read
- orbital inclination
- 1.264089419791343
- time of discovery or invention
- 2005-10-24
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2516735866235366
- albedo
- 0.04
- temperature
- 184
- provisional designation
- 238P/2005 U1
- absolute magnitude
- 8.3
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.166196887709461
- periapsis
- 2.369348761023342
- apoapsis
- 3.96304501439558
- longitude of ascending node
- 51.62539799887467
- argument of periapsis
- 324.2068695211759
- mean anomaly
- 17.76866222755267
- time of periapsis
- 2459735.931851821
- epoch
- September 15, 2022
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238P/Read (P/2005 U1) is a main-belt comet discovered on 24 October 2005 by astronomer Michael T. Read using the Spacewatch 36-inch telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory. It has an orbit within the asteroid belt and has displayed the coma of a traditional comet. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a Jupiter).
== Description ==
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