C/2020 F5 (MASTER)
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 Comet MASTER photographed from the Zwicky Transient Facility on 27 September 2021 | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | MASTER |
| Discovery date | March 28, 2020 |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch | 2020-Apr-06 2458945.5 |
| Observation arc | 39 days |
| Perihelion | 4.32 AU |
| Eccentricity | 1.0007 |
| Orbital period | ~36000 yrs (inbound) ~1800 yrs (outbound) |
| Inclination | 51.69° |
| Last perihelion | 23 March 2021 |
| Earth MOID | 3.5 AU |
C/2020 F5 (MASTER) is a non-periodic comet discovered on 28 March 2020,[2] by the MASTER auto-detection system near San Juan, Argentina.
When first discovered there were dubious claims that it might be an interstellar object,[3] but now it is known to have a common weakly hyperbolic eccentricity of just 1.0007.[1] Before planetary perturbations the comet had an orbital period of about 36000 years.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "C/2020 F5 (MASTER) – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ S. Yoshida. "C/2020 F5 (MASTER)". www.aerith.net. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ D. Oberhaus (17 April 2020). "So You've Found a Comet With a Weird Orbit". Wired. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
External links
[edit]- C/2020 F5 at the JPL Small-Body Database
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