130P/McNaught–Hughes

Periodic comet other comets discovered by R. H. McNaught Comet McNaught (disambiguation) December 2025 130P/McNaught-Hughes Comet 130P McNaught–Hughes 2024-08-03.png Comet McNaught–Hughes imaged from an 8-in reflector on 3 August 2024 IAUC_5354 Robert H. McNaughtShaun M. Hughes Siding Spring Observatory(UK Schmidt Telescope) 30 September 1991 P/1991 S1, P/1997 H1 1991 IX, 1991y jpldata MPC 24 February 2018 (JD 2458173.5) 33.43 years 14 September 1991 2,362 1.824 AU 4.941 AU 3.382 AU 0.46079 6.219 years 6.065° 70.256° 245.91° 5.267° 2.962 0.820 AU 0.566 AU jpldata 2.67 km miFernandez_2013 10.4 14.7 14 April 2024 12 September 2030Horizons2030 130P/McNaught–Hughes is a Jupiter-family comet with a 6.22-year orbit around the Sun. It is the second of two comets co-discovered by Robert H. McNaught and Shaun M. Hughes.The first comet that both astronomers had co-discovered was C/1990 M1 (McNaught–Hughes). Physical characteristics Initial estimates of in 1994 place the size of its nucleus to be around 4.2 km mi in diameter.Scotti_1994 Infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope between 2006 and 2007 reveal the nucleus of this comet to be about 5.34 km mi in diameter.Fernandez_2013 Notes References Y. R. Fernández M. S. P. Kelley P. L. Lamy etal Thermal properties, sizes, and size distribution of Jupiter-family cometary nuclei Icarus 2013 226 1 1138–1170 2013Icar..226.1138F 1307.6191 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.07.021 R. H. McNaught S. M. Hughes D. W. Green Comet McNaught–Hughes (1991y) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05300/05354.html IAU Circular 1991-10-01 5354 1 130P/McNaught–Hughes – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=130P ssd.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2011-06-28 130P/McNaught–Hughes Orbit http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=130P Minor Planet Center 2017-03-02 J. V. Scotti Comet Nuclear Magnitudes https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994BAAS...26.1309./0001375.000.html Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 1994 26 1375 1994AAS...185.4306S Horizons Batch for 130P/McNaught-Hughes (90001046) on 2030-Sep-12 JPL Horizons Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api?format=text&COMMAND=%27DES%3D130P%3BCAP%27&START_TIME=%272030-Sep-11%27&STOP_TIME=%272030-Sep-14%27&STEP_SIZE=%273%20hours%27&QUANTITIES=%2719%27 2026-04-16 (JPL#91 Soln.date: 2025-Dec-29) External links 1000134 130P 130P/McNaught–Hughes at the Minor Planet Center database 130P/McNaught–Hughes at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 130P/McNaught–Hughes at Seiichi Yoshida's website Lightcurve (Artyom Novichonok) 129P/Shoemaker–Levy 131P/Mueller Category:Periodic comets 0130 0130 130P 130P 130P 19910930