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Also known as 412P/2010 B2, 2020 Y1 (WISE)

412P/WISE is an Encke-type comet with a 5.5-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of many comets discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and has since been followed by ground observatories, among them the Mauna Kea Observatory.

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Orbital period
1999.956999407099
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time of discovery or invention
2010-01-22
provisional designation
412P/2010 B2
absolute magnitude
15.2
orbital eccentricity
0.4809020234534285
semi-major axis of an orbit
3.106572457247497
periapsis
1.612615476552486
apoapsis
4.600529437942507
orbital inclination
8.937369174251629
longitude of ascending node
0.8566169438432921
argument of periapsis
155.9628736319457
mean anomaly
254.1575188388707
time of periapsis
2457187.5011417577
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412P/WISE is an Encke-type comet with a 5.5-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of many comets discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and has since been followed by ground observatories, among them the Mauna Kea Observatory.

== Orbit == The comet has an orbital period of 5.49 years, an aphelion of and a perihelion of .

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