- 69P/Taylor
Infobox Comet
name=69P/Taylor
caption=
discoverer=Clement J. Taylor
discovery_date=November 24 ,1915
designations=1915 W1, 1976 X1
epoch=November 11 ,2004
aphelion=
perihelion=1.94 AU
semimajor=3.64 AU
semiminor=
orbital_circ=
eccentricity=0.467
period=6.953 a
avg_speed=
max_speed=
min_speed=
inclination=20.56°
last_p=November 30 ,2004
next_p=July 17 ,2011 Comet Taylor, is a
periodic comet in thesolar system , first discovered by Clement J. Taylor (Cape Town ,South Africa ) onNovember 24 ,1915 .George van Biesbroeck andE. E. Barnard (Yerkes Observatory ,Wisconsin ,USA ) observed that the comet was split into two distinct nucleus, but this was not seen afterMarch 16 .The comet was predicted to return in
1922 , but was lost.In
1928 the discovery of Comet Reinmuth 1 was originally assumed to be Comet Taylor, and again in1951 the same assumption was made with Comet Arend-Rigaux.The
1976 return was predicted byN. A. Belyaev andV. V. Emel'yanenko and onJanuary 25 ,1977 ,Charles Kowal (Palomar Observatory ,California ,USA ) found images on photographic plates forDecember 13 ,1976 .The comet was recovered for the returns in
1984 and1990 , and in1998 was observed as magnitude 12 when it passed close byEarth .External links
* [http://cometography.com/pcomets/069p.html 69P at Kronk's Cometography]
* [http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/~comet/pcmtn/0069p.htm 69P at Kazuo Kinoshita's Comets]
* [http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0069P/index.html 69P at Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog]
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