136P/Mueller

Periodic comet other comets of the same name Comet Mueller 136P/Mueller IAUC_5102 Jean Mueller Palomar Observatory 24 September 1990 P/1990 S1P/1998 K4 1990 XIII, 1990l Mueller 3 jpldata MPC 5 May 2025 (JD 2460800.5) 34.27 years 17 September 1990IAUC_5105 712 2.963 AU 5.415 AU 4.189 AU 8.562 years 0.29313 9.427° 137.42° 225.31° 13.998° 2.934 1.986 AU 0.264 AU Snodgrass_2011 1.15 km mi 0.04 (assumed) 7.4 14.3 3 January 2025 22 October 2033Horizons2033 136P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. Observational history Jean Mueller discovered the comet on exposed photographic plates taken by the Palomar Observatory on the night of 24 September 1990.IAUC_5102 At the time, it was a diffuse 18th-magnitude object in the constellation Cetus.Reported initial position upon discovery was: α 1 38.8, δ –2 13Kronk_2017 Within a couple of days after discovery, Harold Holt found precovery images taken as early as 17 September.IAUC_5105 Orbital calculations by Edward L. G. Bowell and Daniel W. E. Green later indicated that Mueller's new find is a periodic comet.IAUC_5126 James V. Scotti later successfully recovered the comet on 24 May 1998.IAUC_6919 Physical characteristics Assuming a geometric albedo of 0.04, the comet's nucleus is estimated to have an effective radius of 1.2 ± 0.2 km mi.Epifani_2008 Notes References E. M. Epifani P. Palumbo M. T. Capria G. Cremonese M. Fulle L. Colangeli 3 The distant activity of Short Period Comets II https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/390/1/265/2965237/mnras0390-0265.pdf Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2008 390 1 265–280 2008MNRAS.390..265M 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13718.x free J. Mueller C. Brewer J. D. Mendenhall D. W. Green Comet Mueller (1990l) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05100/05102.html IAU Circular 26 September 1990 5102 1 E. Bowell H. E. Holt H. R. Holt C. M. Olmstead J. A. Brown D. W. Green Comet Mueller (1990l) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05100/05105.html IAU Circular 28 September 1990 5105 1 1990IAUC.5105....1B D. W. Green Periodic Comet Mueller (1990l) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05100/05126.html IAU Circular 30 October 1990 5126 2 1990IAUC.5126....2G J. V. Scotti S. Nakano B. G. Marsden Comet P/1998 K4 (Mueller 3) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/06900/06919.html IAU Circular 26 May 1998 6919 1 1998IAUC.6919....1S 136P/Mueller – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=136P ssd.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory 28 July 2025 G. W. Kronk M. Meyer D. A. J. Seargent Cometography: A Catalog of Comets 2017 6: 1983–1993 532–534 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87216-4 136P/Mueller Orbit http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=136P Minor Planet Center 7 April 2017 C. Snodgrass A. Fitzsimmons S. C. Lowry P. Weissman The size distribution of Jupiter Family comet nuclei https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/414/1/458/3818082/mnras0414-0458.pdf Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2011 414 1 458–469 2011MNRAS.414..458S 1101.4228 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18406.x free Horizons Batch for 136P/Mueller 3 (90001055) on 2033-Oct-22 JPL Horizons Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api?format=text&COMMAND=%27DES%3D136P%3BCAP%27&START_TIME=%272033-Oct-21%2012%27&STOP_TIME=%272033-Oct-23%27&STEP_SIZE=%271%20hour%27&QUANTITIES=%2719%27 2026-04-16 (JPL#K253/25 Soln.date: 2026-Mar-09) External links 1000124 136P 136P/Mueller at the Minor Planet Center database 136P/Mueller at Seiichi Yoshida's website 136P/Mueller at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 135P/Shoemaker–Levy 137P/Shoemaker–Levy Category:Periodic comets 0136 136P 136P 136P 136P * *