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Comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) is a long-period comet with roughly a 422-year orbit that is expected to return around 2283. It was discovered by A. E. Thatcher. It was discovered by A. E. Thatcher. It is responsible for the April Lyrid meteor shower . [ 4 ]
The source of the meteor shower are particles of dust shed by the long-period Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. [1] The April Lyrids are the strongest annual shower of meteors from debris of a long-period comet, mainly because as far as other intermediate long-period comets go (200–10,000 years), this one has a relatively short orbital period of ...
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet that has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated —usually historical comets), "I" for an interstellar object, or "A" for an object that was either mistakenly ...
The Great Comet of 1861, formally designated C/1861 J1 and 1861 II, is a long-period comet that was visible to the naked eye for approximately 3 months. [6] It was categorized as a great comet —one of the eight greatest comets of the 19th century.
The comet faded rapidly and it was difficult to measure with the 36-inch telescope of Lick Observatory on 7 May. [6] The comet was found to have a similar orbit to comet C/1742 C1, [7] however comet Grigg–Mellish is intrinsically fainter than that comet. The comet's orbit passes very close to Earth, at a distance of 0.003 AU (0.45 million km ...
The comet was discovered on May 1, 1846, by Theodor Brorsen. He described it as a large round nebulosity without tail. An independent discovery was done later the same day by Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann. The comet upon discovery was near the border of the constellations Pegasus and Vulpecula. The comet approached Earth at a distance of 0.302 ...
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The comet was reported to have a coma two arcminutes across and a broad tail 8 arcminutes long. The comet faded rapidly and it was difficult to measure with the 36-inch telescope of Lick Observatory on 7 May. [5] The comet was found to have similar orbit comet C/1742 C1, [6] however comet Grigg–Mellish is intrisically fainter than that comet ...