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25D/Neujmin

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Also known as Comet Neujmin 2, 25D/Neujmin 2, Neujmin 2, 25D

25D/Neujmin, otherwise known as Comet Neujmin 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Grigory N. Neujmin (Simeis) on February 24, 1916. It was last observed on February 10, 1927.

Key facts

Comet.name
25D/Neujmin
Comet.discoverer
Grigory Neujmin
Comet.discovery_date
24 February 1916
Comet.mpc_name
D/1916 D1D/1926 V2
Comet.epoch
21 March 1927 (JD 2424960.5)
Comet.observation_arc
10.94 years(Not observed in years)
Comet.obs
116
Comet.perihelion
1.338 AU
Comet.aphelion
4.840 AU
Comet.semimajor
3.089 AU
Comet.eccentricity
0.56682
Comet.period
5.429 years
Comet.inclination
10.639°
Comet.asc_node
328.72°
Comet.arg_peri
193.70°
Comet.mean
11.577°
Comet.tjup
2.932
Comet.Earth_moid
0.350 AU

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Wikidata facts

Parent body
Sun
Orbital period
1983.172459232064
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provisional designation
1916a
discoverer or inventor
Grigory Neujmin
time of discovery or invention
1916-02-24
absolute magnitude
12.5
orbital eccentricity
0.566818596285863
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.08916688391109
periapsis
1.33816964707983
apoapsis
4.840164120742355
orbital inclination
10.6387130963875
longitude of ascending node
328.7169509657245
argument of periapsis
193.7040335562024
mean anomaly
11.57706623123575
time of periapsis
2424896.7241141433
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25D/Neujmin, otherwise known as Comet Neujmin 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Grigory N. Neujmin (Simeis) on February 24, 1916. It was last observed on February 10, 1927.

It was confirmed by George Van Biesbroeck (Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, United States) and Frank Watson Dyson (Greenwich Observatory, England) on March 1.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “25D/Neujmin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.