412P/WISE
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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.
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- Orbital period
- 1999.956999407099
- Image
- 425634main wise20100211-full.jpg
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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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