105P/Singer Brewster
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Discovery | |
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Discovered by: | Stephen Singer-Brewster |
Discovery date: | May 3, 1986 |
Alternate designations: | 1986 XI; 1992 XXVI |
Orbital characteristics A | |
Epoch: | March 6, 2006 |
Aphelion distance: | 4.887 AU |
Perihelion distance: | 2.041 AU |
Semi-major axis: | 3.464 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.4108 |
Orbital period: | 6.448 a |
Inclination: | 9.1795° |
Last perihelion: | September 11, 2005 |
Next perihelion: | 2012 |
105P/Singer Brewster is a periodic comet in our solar system. Its name is unusual: co-discovered comets bear the names of the co-discoverers linked by hyphens (e.g., Shoemaker-Levy 9, Helin-Roman-Alu 1, Swift-Tuttle, etc.). But the single discoverer in this case bears a hyphenated name (Stephen Singer-Brewster), so the comet's name replaces the hyphen by a space.
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