C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley) explained

C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley)
Discoverer:Robert McNaught, Malcolm Hartley
Discovery Site:Siding Spring Observatory
Discovery Date:7 October 1999
Designations:C/1999 T1, Comet McNaught-Hartley
Epoch:2451880.5 (2 December 2000)
Obs:704
Eccentricity:0.99985
Last P:13 December 2000

C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley) is a near-parabolic long-period comet, discovered by Robert McNaught and Malcolm Hartley at the Siding Spring Observatory in 1999.

Ulysses probe

Research published in 2004 found that the Ulysses spacecraft had likely detected ions from the comet tail of C/1999 T1. This was the spacecraft's second encounter with a comet tail, after Comet Hyakutake in 1996.

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