93P/Lovas
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93P/Lovas, also called Comet Lovas 1, is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 9.2 years. It was discovered in 1980 by Hungarian astronomer Miklós Lovas.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 3358.917251636945
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- site of astronomical discovery
- Konkoly Observatory
- discoverer or inventor
- Miklós Lovas
- time of discovery or invention
- 1980-12-05
- provisional designation
- 1989p
- absolute magnitude
- 12.5
- rotation period
- 18.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6126650383337702
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.389353771719085
- periapsis
- 1.700150174908333
- apoapsis
- 7.078557368529837
- orbital inclination
- 12.20450342919124
- longitude of ascending node
- 339.6274201271978
- argument of periapsis
- 74.89804338193238
- mean anomaly
- 358.5582133148164
- time of periapsis
- 2457813.9523393614
- epoch
- February 16, 2017
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93P/Lovas, also called Comet Lovas 1, is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 9.2 years. It was discovered in 1980 by Hungarian astronomer Miklós Lovas.
== Observational history == Miklos Lovas discovered the comet in photographic plates exposed on 5 December 1980. He estimated the comet had an apparent magnitude of 17. Although the discovery was announced on 8 December, on 15 December the International Astronomical Union Circular announced that no confirmation of the comet had been reported. Charles T. Kowal discovered the comet independently on 14 December. The low number of available observations meant that a preliminary orbit was difficult to calculate and the orbit of the comet was reliably computed in February 1981.
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