Comet Hale-Bopp
long-period comet
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Summary
Comet Hale-Bopp is a non-periodic comet[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of non periodic comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,682 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Alan Hale[3], Thomas Bopp[4]
- Commons category: Comet Hale-Bopp[5]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[6]
- Time of discovery or invention: July 23, 1995[7]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.9949810027633206[8]
- Absolute magnitude: 4.8[9]
- Orbital inclination: 89.4 degree[10], 89.28759424740302 degree[11]
- Orbital period: 863279.5034870314 day[12]
- Longitude of ascending node: 282.47 degree[13], 282.7334213961641 degree[14]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 177.4333839117583 astronomical unit[15]
- Apoapsis: 353.9762301599687 astronomical unit[16]
- Periapsis: 0.890537663547794 astronomical unit[17]
- Argument of periapsis: 130.591 degree[18], 130.4146670659176 degree[19]
- Periapsis date (DEPRECATED): April 1, 1997[20]
- Mean anomaly: 3.878386339423241 degree[21]
- Diameter: 60.0 km[22]
- Albedo: 0.04[23]
- Epoch: September 15, 2022[24]
- Time of periapsis: 2450537.134907144 Julian day[25]
Why It Matters
Comet Hale-Bopp has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]