92P/Sanguin Explained

92P/Sanguin
Discoverer:Juan G. Sanguin
Discovery Date:October 15, 1977
Epoch:November 17, 2014
Observation Arc:36 years
Obs:896
Aphelion:8.89 AU
Perihelion:1.82 AU
Semimajor:5.36 AU
Eccentricity:.659521857266038
Period:12 years
Inclination:19.44339335368171
Tjup:2.410
Dimensions:2.38 km
M1:10.5
Last P:2015-Mar-01
2002-Sep-23
Next P:2027-July-15

92P/Sanguin, also called Sanguin's Comet or Comet Sanguin, is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on October 15, 1977, by Juan G. Sanguin at Leoncito Astronomical Complex.[1] It completes a single rotation approximately every 6 days.[2]

The nucleus of the comet has a radius of about 1.2 kilometers based on observations by Keck, assuming a geometric albedo of 0.04.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 92P/Sanguin . Small-Body Database Lookup . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov . 9 June 2024.
  2. The nuclei of comets 7P/Pons-Winnecke, 14P/Wolf and 92P/Sanguin . Astronomy & Astrophysics . June 25, 2011 . Snodgrass . 444 . 287–295 . 10.1051/0004-6361:20053237 . astro-ph/0509115 . 119473563 . etal.
  3. Meech . K.J. . Hainaut . O.R. . Marsden . B.G. . Comet nucleus size distributions from HST and Keck telescopes . Icarus . August 2004 . 170 . 2 . 463–491 . 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.03.014. 2004Icar..170..463M .