260P/McNaught
Sign in to saveComet McNaught 4, also known as 260P/McNaught, is a periodic comet with a 6.9-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of several comets discovered by Australian astronomer, Robert H. McNaught.
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- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2574.258129965709
- Image
- 260P 2019-10-03 image ZTF-sso-699-zr-fov-11arcmin.png
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- provisional designation
- 260P/2005 K3
- discoverer or inventor
- Robert H. McNaught
- time of discovery or invention
- 2005-05-20
- absolute magnitude
- 12.7
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.594263830016187
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.675945896881103
- periapsis
- 1.491464209268251
- apoapsis
- 5.860427584493955
- orbital inclination
- 15.76861437047803
- longitude of ascending node
- 351.8631927316671
- argument of periapsis
- 15.57816165602592
- mean anomaly
- 106.3521662654097
- time of periapsis
- 2456183.005753755
- epoch
- October 13, 2014
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Comet McNaught 4, also known as 260P/McNaught, is a periodic comet with a 6.9-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of several comets discovered by Australian astronomer, Robert H. McNaught.
== Observational history == On 20 May 2005, Robert H. McNaught found his fourth periodic comet (P/2005 K3) from the telescope of the Siding Spring Observatory, where he reported it has a slightly diffuse head with a narrow tail about 30 arcseconds in length.
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