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Non-periodic comet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
C/1999 T1 (McNaught–Hartley) is a near-parabolic long-period comet, discovered by Robert H. McNaught and Malcolm Hartley at the Siding Spring Observatory in 1999.[4]
Discovery[1] | |
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Discovered by | Robert H. McNaught Malcolm Hartley |
Discovery site | Siding Spring Observatory |
Discovery date | 7 October 1999 |
Designations | |
Comet McNaught-Hartley | |
Orbital characteristics[2][3] | |
Epoch | 2 December 2000 (JD 2451880.5) |
Observation arc | 787 days (2.15 years) |
Number of observations | 661 |
Aphelion | 16,247 AU |
Perihelion | 1.172 AU |
Semi-major axis | 8,124 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.99985 |
Orbital period | 732,246 years |
Inclination | 79.975° |
182.483° | |
Argument of periapsis | 344.758° |
Last perihelion | 13 December 2000 |
TJupiter | 0.234 |
Earth MOID | 0.19397 AU |
Jupiter MOID | 3.41621 AU |
Physical characteristics | |
1–10 days | |
Comet total magnitude (M1) | 8.3 |
Comet McNaught–Hartley was a magnitude 15 object upon discovery on October 7, 1999.[4] Gas emissions were measured in x-ray light by the Chandra observatory (alongside C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)) between 8–14 January 2001.[5][6] Observations of its coma between January 26 and February 5, 2001 show that the nucleus has a rotation period between 1 and 10 days.[7]
Research published in 2004 found that the Ulysses spacecraft had likely detected ions from the comet tail of C/1999 T1. This was the spacecraft's second encounter with a comet tail, after Comet Hyakutake in 1996.[8][9]
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