130P / McNaught-Hughes

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130P / McNaught-Hughes [i]
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Orbit type short-term
Numerical eccentricity 0.40669
Perihelion 2.0980 AU
Aphelion 4.9743 AU
Major semi-axis 3.5362 AU
Sidereal period 6.65 a
Inclination of the orbit plane 7.3073 °
Perihelion January 21, 2018

June 24, 2011
October 23, 2004
February 23, 1998

Physical properties of the core
Medium diameter 4.2 km
Albedo 16.5
history
Explorer Robert H. McNaught
Shaun M. Hughes
Date of discovery September 30, 1991
Older name 130P / 1991 S1 (1991 IX)
130P / 1997 H1 (1997 H1)
Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . Please also note the note on comet articles .

130P / McNaught – Hughes is a periodic comet in the solar system . It takes 6.65 years to orbit the sun and has a diameter of 4.2 km.

The comet was discovered on September 30, 1991 by Robert H. McNaught on a picture taken by Shaun M. Hughes with the UK Schmidt telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory . The sighting was confirmed by McNaught on October 1, 1991 by another image taken with the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.

In April 1997, the comet was rediscovered independently by astronomer JV Scotti at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Arizona and Akimasa Nakamura at the Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory. J. Larsen found the comet in pictures taken on April 16, 1997 with the 0.9 meter Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak .

The comet bears the name of its discoverers McNaught and Hughes.

credentials

  1. ↑ a b Patrick Rocher: Note number: 0150 P / McNaught-Hughes: 130P . Institut de mécanique céleste et de de calcul des éphémérides. January 15, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System output: Observer Table for Comet 130P / McNaught-Hughes . Retrieved June 13, 2011. (Observer Location: @sun)
  3. ↑ a b c JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 130P / McNaught-Hughes . Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  4. ^ Gary W. Kronk's Cometography

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