116P/Wild

Periodic comet with 6 year orbit Wild 4 other comets of the same name Comet Wild 116P/Wild 116P 2022-02-26 image ZTF-sso-570-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png Comet Wild 4 photographed by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 26 February 2022. IAUC_4950 Paul Wild January 21, 1990 P/1990 B1, P/1994 V1ICQ1 1990 X, 1990a, 1994vWild 4 jpldata MPC 17 October 2024 (JD 2460600.5) 34.62 years 6,425 2.195 AU 4.779 AU 3.487 AU 6.511 years 0.37401 3.604° 20.965° 173.18° 124.64° 3.009 1.187 AU 0.188 AU jpldata Lamy_2004 3.0 – 3.5 km mi 7.6 12.9 16 July 2022 16 January 2029Horizons Batch for 116P/Wild 4 (90001000) on 2029-Jan-16 JPL Horizons Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api?format=text&COMMAND=%27DES%3D116P%3BCAP%27&START_TIME=%272029-Jan-16%27&STOP_TIME=%272029-Jan-17%27&STEP_SIZE=%273%20hours%27&QUANTITIES=%2719%27 2023-07-06 (JPL#K223/36 Soln.date: 2023-Jul-05) 116P/Wild, also known as Wild 4, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a < aJupiter). On 4 November 2042, the comet will pass about 0.029 AU e6km e6mi unit from 1 Ceres.jpldata References P. Wild U. Hugentobler B. G. Marsden Comet Wild (1990a) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/04900/04950.html IAU Circular 23 January 1990 4950 1 1990IAUC.4950....1W Comet Names and Designations http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/names1.html International Comet Quarterly 21 July 2025 116P/Wild 4 – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=116P ssd.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory 24 February 2012 P. L. Lamy I. Toth Y. R. Fernández H. A. Weaver Comets II The Sizes, Shapes, Albedos, and Colors of Cometary Nuclei https://physics.ucf.edu/~yfernandez/papers/comets2chapter/comets2reprint.pdf 2004 223–264 j.ctv1v7zdq5.22 2022-10-09 2025-07-21 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://physics.ucf.edu/~yfernandez/papers/comets2chapter/comets2reprint.pdf dead 116P/Wild Orbit https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=116P Minor Planet Center 7 April 2017 External links 1000122 116P 116P/Wild at the Minor Planet Center database 116P/Wild at Seiichi Yoshida's website 116P/Wild at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 115P/Maury 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu Category:Periodic comets 0116 0116 116P 116P *