65P/Gunn
Sign in to save65P/Gunn is a periodic comet in the Solar System orbiting the Sun every 6.41 years inside the main asteroid belt between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
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Within Vinony's link graph, 65P/Gunn is referenced by 576 other articles, and connects out to comet, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and Tempel 1.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1970, Comets in 2017 and Comets in 2025.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Comet.asc_node
- 136.09°
- Comet.name
- 65P/Gunn
- Comet.image
- Comet 65P Gunn WISE.jpg
- Comet.caption
- Infrared image of Gunn's Comet taken from the WISE observatory on 11 June 2010.
- Comet.discoverer
- James E. Gunn
- Comet.discovery_site
- Palomar Observatory
- Comet.discovery_date
- 17 October 1970
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1954 P1, P/1970 U2
- Comet.epoch
- 17 October 2024 (JD 2460600.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 71.13 years
- Comet.earliest_precovery_date
- 8 August 1954
- Comet.obs
- 7,963
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.597 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 4.737 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.453 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.3194
- Comet.period
- 6.414 years
- Comet.inclination
- 3.237°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 10.8
- Orbital period
- 2791.427284624695
- Image
- Comet 65P Gunn WISE.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- James E. Gunn
- time of discovery or invention
- 1970-10-27
- provisional designation
- 1953 VIII
- absolute magnitude
- 10.5
- epoch
- December 31, 2017
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2499599810049728
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.879882691425759
- periapsis
- 2.910067287575453
- apoapsis
- 4.849698095276064
- orbital inclination
- 9.185293773089974
- longitude of ascending node
- 62.01734589958912
- argument of periapsis
- 213.5491706951181
- mean anomaly
- 9.693399736153852
- time of periapsis
- 2458043.3377208216
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- Orbit
- Physical characteristics
- References
- External links
65P/Gunn is a periodic comet in the Solar System orbiting the Sun every 6.41 years inside the main asteroid belt between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
== Observational history == It was discovered on 11 October 1970 by James E. Gunn of Princeton University using the 122-cm Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory. It had a low brightness of magnitude 16 at that time. In 1972, Elizabeth Roemer managed to observe 65P/Gunn close to aphelion.
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