Great Comet of 1729

Great Comet of 1729

The Great Comet of 1729, also known as C/1729 P1, is a non-periodic comet with an absolute magnitude of −3, the second brightest absolute magnitude ever observed. ["Comet Caesar" (C/-43 K1) has been calculated to have had the brightest absolute magnitude in recorded history: −3.3 at the time of discovery and −4.0 during a later flare-up; cp. John T. Ramsey & A. Lewis Licht, "The Comet of 44 B.C. and Caesar's Funeral Games", Atlanta, 1997, ISBN 0-788-50273-5.] It was discovered in 1729. Infobox Comet
name=C/1729 P1


discoverer=P. Sarabat
discovery_date=August 1, 1729
designations=C/1729 P1, 1729, Great Comet of 1729
epoch=2352731.148 (June 16, 1729)
semimajor=N/A
perihelion=4.05054 AU
aphelion=N/A
eccentricity=1
period=N/A a
inclination=77.095°
last_p=June 16, 1729
next_p=N/A

Notes

References

[http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/1729%20P1;orb=1 NASA Orbital Diagram]


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