22P/Kopff
periodic comet
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Summary
22P/Kopff is a periodic comet[1]. 22P/Kopff draws 118 Wikipedia views per month (periodic comet category, ranking #26 of 183).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: August Kopff[3]
- Instance of: Jupiter-family comet[4]
- Followed by: 23P/Brorsen–Metcalf[5]
- Commons category: 22P/Kopff[6]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
- Provisional designation: 1994s[8], 1988k[9], 1982k[10], 1976b[11], 1970 XI[12], 1963i[13], 1958 I[14], 1951e[15], 1945 V[16], 1939e[17], 1932 III[18], 1926 II[19], 22P/1919 O1[20], 1919a[21]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 22, 1906[22]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.5486125324976545[23]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.9[24]
- Orbital inclination: 4.739847592862509 degree[25]
- Orbital period: 2334.946016068254 day[26]
- Longitude of ascending node: 120.8356661331868 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.444442544517852 astronomical unit[28]
- Apoapsis: 5.334106891908456 astronomical unit[29]
- Periapsis: 1.554778197127248 astronomical unit[30]
- Argument of periapsis: 162.912254241474 degree[31]
- Mean anomaly: 187.3361824207656 degree[32]
- Diameter: 3.0 km[33]
- Albedo: 0.05[34]
- Epoch: February 22, 2019[35]
- Time of periapsis: 2459656.3908138215 Julian day[36]
Why It Matters
22P/Kopff has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] 22P/Kopff is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]