C/2023 V5 (Leonard) | |
Discoverer: | Greg J. Leonard |
Discovery Date: | 6 November 2023 |
Epoch: | 2023-Nov-07 |
Observation Arc: | 9 days |
Obs: | 148 |
Orbit: | hyperbolic |
Perihelion: | 0.846 AU |
Eccentricity: | 1.008 |
Inclination: | 73.6° |
Asc Node: | 31.52° |
Arg Peri: | 57.0° |
Earth Moid: | 0.089 AU |
Jupiter Moid: | 0.915 AU |
M1: | 21.4 |
Last P: | 13 December 2023 |
C/2023 V5 (Leonard) was discovered on 6 November 2023 by the Catalina Sky Survey. It came to perihelion on 13 December 2023 at 0.849abbr=unitNaNabbr=unit, from the Sun. It is probably a Liller family comet, together with C/1988 A1 (Liller), C/1996 Q1 (Tabur), C/2015 F3 (SWAN), and C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS).
JPL Horizons shows both an inbound and outbound eccentricity greater than 1.
Comet C/2023 V5 is probably a secondary fragment of one of the primary fragments of C/1988 A1 (Liller).