206P/Barnard–Boattini

206P/Barnard–Boattini
Discovery
Discovery date October 13, 1892
Alternative
designations		 D/1892 T1; P/1892 T1;
1892e; 1892 V;
P/2008 T3
Orbital characteristics A
Epoch October 21, 2008
(JD 2454760.5)
Aphelion 5.332981 AU
Perihelion 1.145243 AU
Semi-major axis 3.239112 AU
Eccentricity 0.646433
Orbital period 5.83 a
Inclination 32.9309°
Last perihelion October 25, 2008
Next perihelion August 27, 2014[1][2]

206P/Barnard–Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means.[3] The American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard did so on the night of October 13, 1892.

After this apparition this comet was lost and was thus designated D/1892 T1.

Ľuboš Neslušan (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) suggests that 14P/Wolf and this comet are siblings which stem from a common parent comet.[4]

This comet was rediscovered on October 7, 2008 by Andrea Boattini in the course of the Mt. Lemmon Survey. It was initially credited to Boattini before it was identified as Comet Barnard 3.[3] The comet has made 20 revolutions since 1892 and passed within 0.3–0.4 AU of Jupiter in 1922, 1934 and 2005.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Syuichi Nakano (2009-03-18). "206P/Barnard-Boattini (NK 1752)". OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  2. ↑ 206P/Barnard-Boattini at Kazuo Kinoshita's home page
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 206P at Garry Kronk’s Cometography
  4. ↑ Ľuboš Neslušan, Comets 14P/Wolf and D/1892 T1 as parent bodies of a common, alpha-Capricornids related, meteor stream Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 351, pp. 752–758 (1999) PDF
  5. ↑ IAUC 8995
  6. ↑ The COCD Homepage: News – October 2008

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