Indy's Object Catalog
Periodic Comets
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Name Perihelion
Time
Perihelion
AU
Eccentricity Long.
Perihelion
Long.
Node
Inclination Semimajor
Axis
Period
Ashbrook
-Jackson
93-07-14 2.316 0.39 349 3 12.5 3.83
AU
7.49
years
Borrelly 94-11-01 1.365 0.62 353 75 30.3 3.62
AU
6.88
years
Brooks 2 94-09-01 1.843 0.49 198 177 5.5 3.62
AU
6.89
years
Bus 94-06-28 2.183 0.37 24 182 2.6 3.49
AU
6.52
years
Ciffréo 93-01-23.065 1.70877 0.54317 358.034 53.709 13.089 3.74
AU
7.23
years
Encke 94-02-09 0.331 0.85 186 335 11.9 2.21
AU
3.28
years
Forbes 93-03-14.632 1.44684 0.56805 310.537 334.456 7.159 3.35
AU
6.13
years
Gehrels 3 93-07-25 3.427 0.15 231 243 1.1 4.04
AU
8.11
years
Giclas 92-09-13.092 1.84679 0.49321 276.486 112.526 7.284 3.64
AU
6.96
years
Halley 86-02-09 0.587 0.97 112 59 162.2 17.94
AU
76
years
Hartley 3 94-05-20 2.462 0.32 168 288 11.7 3.60
AU
6.84
years
Harrington 94-08-23 1.572 0.56 233 119 8.7 3.58
AU
6.78
years
Holmes 93-04-10 2.177 0.41 23 327 19.2 3.69
AU
7.09
years
Howell 93-02-26.096 1.40914 0.55206 234.757 57.744 4.4 3.15
AU
5.58
years
Kohoutek 94-06-29 1.785 0.5 176 270 5.9 3.54
AU
6.67
years
Kojima 94-02-17 2.399 0.39 349 155 0.9 3.95
AU
7.85
years
Lovas 2 93-06-02 1.462 0.59 71 283 1.5 3.58
AU
6.76
years
Maury 94-03-19 2.027 0.52 120 177 11.7 4.24
AU
8.74
years
Neujmin 3 93-11-13 2.001 0.59 147 150 4 4.83
AU
10.63
years
Reinmuth 2 94-06-29 1.893 0.46 46 296 7 3.53
AU
6.64
years
Russell 2 94-10-27 2.276 0.4 249 42 12 3.79
AU
7.38
years
Schaumasse 93-03-03.961 1.20216 0.70485 57.482 81.053 11.846 4.07
AU
8.22
years
Schuster 92-09-06.422 1.53924 0.58952 355.733 50.602 20.134 3.75
AU
7.26
years
Schwassman
-Wachmann 1
89-10-26 5.772 0.04 50 313 9.4 6.04
AU
14.85
years
Schwassman
-Wachmann 2
94-01-23 2.07 0.4 358 126 3.8 3.44
AU
6.39
years
Shajn
-Schaldach
93-11-15 2.345 0.39 217 167 6.1 3.83
AU
7.49
years
Slaughter
-Burnham
93-06-22 2.544 0.5 44 346 8.2 5.12
AU
11.60
years
Smirnova
-Chernykh
92-08-05 3.575 0.15 88 77 6.6 4.19
AU
8.59
years
Swift-Tuttle 92-12-12.324 0.95822 0.96359 153.002 139.444 113.427 26.23
AU
135.29
years
Tempel 1 94-07-03 1.494 0.52 179 69 10.6 3.11
AU
5.50
years
Tempel 2 94-03-16 1.484 0.52 195 118 12 3.11
AU
5.48
years
Tuttle 94-06-25 0.998 0.82 207 270 54.7 5.67
AU
13.51
years
/Urata
-Nijima
93-07-13 1.457 0.59 21 31 24.2 3.53
AU
6.64
years
Väisälä 1 93-04-29.175 1.78302 0.63471 47.385 135.077 11.596 4.88
AU
10.78
years
van Houten 93-11-17 4.155 0.37 37 0 7.2 6.58
AU
16.87
years
West
-Kohoutek
-Ikemura
93-12-25 1.577 0.54 0 84 30.5 3.45
AU
6.41
years
Whipple 94-12-22 3.094 0.26 202 182 9.9 4.17
AU
8.53
years
Wild 3 94-07-21 2.299 0.37 179 73 15.5 3.63
AU
6.91
years
Wiseman
-Skiff
93-06-04 1.509 0.57 171 271 18.2 3.49
AU
6.53
years
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