C/1937 P1 (Hubble) | |
Discoverer: | Edwin Hubble |
Discovery Site: | Mount Wilson Obs. |
Discovery Date: | 4 August 1937 |
Designations: | 1937g 1936 V |
Epoch: | 8 November 1936 (JD 2428480.5) |
Observation Arc: | 85 days |
Obs: | 58 |
Aphelion: | 140.125 AU |
Perihelion: | 1.9536 AU |
Semimajor: | 71.039 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.9725 |
Period: | 599 years |
Inclination: | 11.581° |
Asc Node: | 97.796° |
Arg Peri: | 147.49° |
Tjup: | 1.759 |
Last P: | 14 November 1936 |
Comet Hubble, formally designated C/1937 P1, is the first and only comet discovered by astronomer Edwin Hubble. The comet was already on its outbound flight when it was first spotted in August 1937 as a magnitude 13.5 object in the constellation Sagittarius. It is the fourth comet discovered in 1937.