159P/LONEOS

Jupiter-family comet July 2026 other comets of the same name Comet LONEOS 159P/LONEOS IAUC_8248 LONEOS 16 October 2003 P/2003 UD 16 LONEOS 7nasa-pds jpldata MPC 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5) 31.26 years 17 December 1989IAUC_8263 885 3.617 AU 8.095 AU 5.856 AU 0.38236 14.171 years 23.479° 54.937° 4.749° 190.27° 2.687 2.633 AU 1.345 AU jpldata 2.9 km miFernandez_2013 660 120 kg/m3Paradowski_2022 12.9 22 May 2018NK1024 28 July 2032Horizons2032 159P/LONEOS is a Jupiter-family comet with a 14.2-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of 18 comets discovered by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) survey. 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 Horizons Batch for 159P/LONEOS on 2032-Jul-28 JPL Horizons Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons_batch.cgi?batch=1&COMMAND=%27159P%27&START_TIME=%272032-Jul-25%27&STOP_TIME=%272032-Jul-31%27&STEP_SIZE=%273%20hours%27&QUANTITIES=%2719%27 2023-07-06 (JPL#54/Soln.date: 2021-Jul-01) C. W. Hergenrother T. B. Spahr B. G. Marsden D. W. Green Comet P/2003 UD 16 (LONEOS) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08200/08248.html IAU Circular 2003-12-03 8248 1 2003IAUC.8248....1H M. Meyer B. G. Marsden Comet 159P/2003 UD 16 (LONEOS) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08200/08263.html IAU Circular 2004-01-07 8263 1 2004IAUC.8263....1M 159P/LONEOS – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=159P ssd.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2026-07-07 159P/LONEOS Orbit http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=159P Minor Planet Center 2014-06-18 Periodic Comet Names and Designations https://pds-smallbodies.astro.umd.edu/data_sb/resources/periodic_comets.shtml Planetary Data System: Small Body Node NASA 2026-07-07 S. Nakano 159P/LONEOS (NK 1024) http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk/nk1024.htm OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections 2004-01-19 2012-02-25 M. L. Paradowski A New Indirect Method of Determining Density of Cometary Nuclei https://acta.astrouw.edu.pl/Vol72/n2/pdf/pap_72_2_4.pdf Acta Astronomica 2022 72 2 141–159 2022AcA....72..141P 0001-5237 10.32023/0001-5237/72.2.4 free External links 1000470 159P 159P/LONEOS at the Minor Planet Center database 159P/LONEOS at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 159P/LONEOS at Seiichi Yoshida's website 158P/Kowal–LINEAR 160P/LINEAR Category:Periodic comets 0159 159P 159P #