Comet
Whipple-Fedtke-Tevzadze
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Whipple-Fedtke-Tevzadze is a comet in the Comet orbit class. Its orbit takes it from 1.35 AU to 345.56 AU from the Sun.
Orbital elements
- Semi-major axis
- 173.456 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.9922
- Inclination
- 19.71°
- Perihelion
- 1.354 AU
- Aphelion
- 345.557 AU
- Longitude of ascending node
- 100.8°
- Argument of periapsis
- 39.84°
- Epoch · J2000
- 2430760.5
- Orbit class · COM
- Comet
- Tisserand (Jupiter)
- 1.385
Orbit quality
- Observations used
- 166
- Data arc
- 257 days
- First observed
- 17 November 1942
- Last observed
- 1 August 1943
Discovery & classification
Also known as 1942 X1
Named
Sources
- orbital elements: JPL SBDB