C/1954 O1 (Vozarova) | |
Discoverer: | Margita V. Kresáková |
Discovery Site: | Skalnaté pleso Observatory |
Discovery Date: | 28 July 1954 |
Designations: | 1954f 1954 VIII |
Epoch: | 9 November 1954 (JD 2435055.5) |
Observation Arc: | 144 days |
Obs: | 60 |
Perihelion: | 0.7812 AU |
Semimajor: | –10.6066 AU |
Eccentricity: | 1.07365 |
Inclination: | 115.184° |
Asc Node: | 123.986° |
Arg Peri: | 5.108° |
Earth Moid: | 0.2005 AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 3.5469 AU |
Magnitude: | 9.0 (1954 apparition) |
Last P: | 1 June 1954 |
Comet Vozarova, formally designated C/1954 O1, is a hyperbolic comet discovered by Slovak astronomer, Margita Vozárová, on July 28, 1954.
The comet was already on its outbound flight as a magnitude 9.0 object upon discovery, where some observers noticed it also may have potentially fragmented.
By August, the comet was found to have a 20-arcminute long tail pointed towards the Sun. It was last observed from the Lick Observatory as a magnitude 18.5 object on December 18, 1954.