This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Fact Sheets Comet Fact Sheet |
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| See also: Notes On The Fact Sheets |   |
Orbital Perihelion Perihelion Semi-Major Orbital Orbital Absolute
Number & Name Period Date Distance Axis Eccentricity Inclination Magnitude
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1P Halley 76.1 yrs. 1986-02-09 0.587 AU 17.94 AU 0.967 162.2 deg. 5.5
2P Encke 3.30 yrs. 2000-09-09 0.339 AU 2.21 AU 0.847 11.8 deg. 9.8
6P d'Arrest 6.51 yrs. 2008-08-01 1.346 AU 3.49 AU 0.614 19.5 deg. 8.5
9P Tempel 1 5.51 yrs. 2005-07-07 1.497 AU 3.12 AU 0.519 10.5 deg.
19P Borrelly 6.80 yrs. 2001-09-14 1.365 AU 3.59 AU 0.623 30.3 deg.
21P Giacobini-Zinner 6.52 yrs. 1998-11-21 0.996 AU 3.52 AU 0.706 31.8 deg. 9.0
26P Grigg-Skjellerup 5.09 yrs. 1992-07-22 0.989 AU 2.96 AU 0.664 21.1 deg. 12.5
27P Crommelin 27.89 yrs. 1984-09-01 0.743 AU 9.20 AU 0.919 29.0 deg. 12.0
45P Honda-Mrkos
-Pajdusakova 5.29 yrs. 1995-12-25 0.581 AU 3.02 AU 0.825 4.3 deg. 13.5
46P Wirtanen 5.46 yrs. 2013-10-21 1.063 AU 3.12 AU 0.652 11.7 deg. 9.0
55P Tempel-Tuttle 32.92 yrs. 1998-02-28 0.982 AU 10.33 AU 0.906 162.5 deg. 9.0
73P Schwassmann 5.35 yrs. 2006-06-02 0.933 AU 3.06 AU 0.695 11.4 deg.
-Wachmann 3
75P Kohoutek 6.24 yrs. 1973-12-28 1.571 AU 3.4 AU 0.537 5.4 deg.
76P West-Kohoutek
-Ikemura 6.46 yrs. 2000-06-01 1.596 AU 3.45 AU 0.540 30.5 deg.
81P Wild 2 6.39 yrs. 2003-09-25 1.583 AU 3.44 AU 0.540 3.2 deg. 6.5
95P Chiron 50.7 yrs. 1996-02-14 8.46 AU 13.7 AU 0.38 7 deg.
107P Wilson-Harrington 4.30 yrs. 2001-03-24 1.000 AU 2.64 AU 0.622 2.8 deg.
Hale-Bopp 4000. yrs. 1997-03-31 0.914 AU 250. AU 0.995 89.4 deg.
Hyakutake ~40000. yrs. 1996-05-01 0.230 AU ~1165. AU 0.9998 124.9 deg.
Last Update: 2004-Jun-06