71P/Clark
Sign in to save71P/Clark is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of 5.5 years.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 1.36
- Orbital period
- 2031.192988912696
- Image
- 71P 2017-09-09 NEOWISE image 3-color.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1973-06-09
- provisional designation
- 1973 V
- absolute magnitude
- 11.1
- epoch
- May 26, 2019
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.494504749101688
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.138835154207467
- periapsis
- 1.586666263804545
- apoapsis
- 4.691004044610389
- orbital inclination
- 9.444519066362215
- longitude of ascending node
- 59.44359451637261
- argument of periapsis
- 208.9691151233148
- mean anomaly
- 123.1141536344814
- time of periapsis
- 2457934.8649841715
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71P/Clark is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of 5.5 years.
It was discovered by Michael Clark at Mount John University Observatory, New Zealand on 9 June 1973 with a brightness of apparent magnitude 13. Subsequently it has been observed in 1978, 1984, 1989, 1995, 2000, 2006, 2011 and 2017.
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