173P/Mueller

Periodic comet with 13 year orbit other comets of the same name Comet Mueller 173P/Mueller 173P 2006-10-24 Spitzer image Level-2-PBCD-IRS-PU-Blue-13.3-18.7um.png Jean Mueller November 20, 1993 1993 W1; 1994 XXV; 2005 T1 March 6, 2006 5.707 AU 4.213 AU 7.202 AU 0.2618 13.64 a 16.4919° December 16, 2021173P/Mueller Orbit http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=173P Minor Planet Center 2014-06-202008-05-30 173P/Mueller 5 (NK 1627) OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections Syuichi Nakano Syuichi Nakano http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk/nk1627.htm 2012-02-25May 18, 2008 2035-Aug-29Horizons Batch for 173P/Mueller 5 on 2035-Aug-29 JPL Horizons Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi?batch=1&COMMAND=%27173P%27&START_TIME=%272035-Aug-27%27&STOP_TIME=%272035-Aug-31%27&STEP_SIZE=%273%20hours%27&QUANTITIES=%2719%27 2023-04-29 (JPL#110/Soln.date: 2022-Dec-08) 173P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 5, is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of 13.6 years. The comet was discovered by Jean Mueller in plates exposed on 20 November 1993 as part of the second Palomar Sky Survey. The comet had an apparent magnitude of 17.5–18 and a tail about 80 arcseconds long.Green Daniel IAUC 5891: 1993s; RX J2107.9-0518; N Sgr 1993 www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu 21 November 1993 http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05800/05891.html The comet was recovered by Eric J. Christensen in images obtained on 6 October 2005 during the Mount Lemmon Survey. The comet then han an apparent magnitude of 18–18.4.Green Daniel IAUC 8613: P/1993 W1 = 2005 T1 www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu 8 December 2005 http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08600/08613.html The nucleus of the comet is estimated to have a radius of 4.28 0.95 1.17 km based on infrared imaging by the Spitzer Space Telescope.Fernández Y.R. Kelley M.S. Lamy P.L. Toth I. Groussin O. Lisse C.M. A’Hearn M.F. Bauer J.M. Campins H. Fitzsimmons A. Licandro J. Lowry S.C. Meech K.J. Pittichová J. Reach W.T. Snodgrass C. Weaver H.A. Thermal properties, sizes, and size distribution of Jupiter-family cometary nuclei Icarus September 2013 226 1 1138–1170 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.07.021 1307.6191 References External links 1000149 173P 173P/Mueller at the Minor Planet Center database 173P/Mueller on Seiichi Yoshida's website 172P/Yeung 174P/Echeclus Category:Periodic comets 0173 0173 0173 173P