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Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Alphonse Borrelly William Robert Brooks |
Discovery date | 23 July 1900 |
Designations | |
Alternative designations | 1900b 1900 II |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch | 15 August 1900 (JD 2415246.5) |
Observation arc | 94 days |
Number of observations | 121 |
Perihelion | 1.015 AU |
Eccentricity | 1.00032 |
Orbital period | ~66,000 years (inbound) |
Inclination | 62.533° |
Longitude of ascending node | 329.41° |
Argument of periapsis | 12.423° |
Last perihelion | 3 August 1900 |
Earth MOID | 0.0154 AU |
Jupiter MOID | 3.0621 AU |
Physical characteristics | |
Comet total magnitude (M1) | 5.0 |
Comet nuclear magnitude (M2) | 8.0 |
Apparent magnitude | 8.64 (1900 apparition) |
Comet Borrelly–Brooks, formal designation C/1900 O1, is a hyperbolic comet that was seen throughout the latter half of 1900.
References
- H. K. Palmer (1901). "Photographic Observations of Comet II, 1900 (Borrelly–Brooks)" (PDF). Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 13 (78): 48–51. Bibcode:1901PASP...13...48P. doi:10.1086/121418. JSTOR 40671436.
- "Comet Names and Designations". International Comet Quarterly. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- "C/1900 O1 (Borrelly–Brooks) – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- G. W. Kronk (2007). Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. Vol. 3: 1900–1932. Cambridge University Press. pp. 3–8. ISBN 978-0-521-58506-4.
External links
- C/1900 O1 at the JPL Small-Body Database
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