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1.507 AU (225.4 million km) Comet total. magnitude (M1) 13.6. C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) is a long period comet with a retrograde orbit discovered on December 18, 2018, by Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Iwamoto. [ 1] Its period is estimated to be 1,733 years. It passed closest to Earth on February 13, 2019. [ 3]
List of periodic comets. Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage [ 1] (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang ). "Periodic comet" is also sometimes used to mean any comet with a periodic orbit, even if greater than 200 years.
For a different comet that passed by Earth in February 2019, see C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto). Comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto) is a minor body that follows a slightly hyperbolic orbit ( eccentricity > 1, 16.4- sigma ). It was visually discovered on 7 November 2018 by Donald Machholz using an 18.5-inch reflecting telescope [ 2] and it ...
Comet is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group [ 2] that focuses on science fiction, supernatural, horror, adventure and fantasy programming. The network was originally launched on October 31, 2015 as a joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with much ...
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A zoomed-in image of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) captured on Jan. 23, 2023. (Michael Borland) Celestial sleuths at th Comet E3 to make closest approach to Earth tonight
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62P/Tsuchinshan. 62P/Tsuchinshan, also known as Tsuchinshan 1, is a periodic comet first discovered January 1, 1965 at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanking. [6] It last came to perihelion on 25 December 2023 at around apparent magnitude 8, [2] and was then 0.53 AU (79 million km) from Earth and 110 degrees from the Sun. [4]