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C/1879 Q1 (Palisa)
Discovery
Discovered byJohann Palisa
Discovery sitePula, Croatia
Discovery date21 August 1879
Designations
Alternative designations1879d
1879 V
Orbital characteristics
Epoch25 September 1879 (JD 2407617.5)
Observation arc48 days
Number of
observations		12
Perihelion0.9895 AU
Eccentricity~1.000
Inclination77.12°
Longitude of
ascending node		88.87°
Argument of
periapsis		115.48°
Last perihelion5 October 1879
Earth MOID0.3021 AU
Jupiter MOID0.8980 AU
Physical characteristics
Comet total
magnitude (M1)		8.0
Apparent magnitude5.5
(1879 apparition)

Palisa's Comet, also known formally as C/1879 Q1 by its modern nomenclature, is a parabolic comet that was barely visible to the naked eye in late 1879. It was the only comet discovered by Austrian astronomer, Johann Palisa.

Discovery and observations

Johann Palisa discovered this comet on 21 August 1879, initially mistaking it for a nebula not recorded in the catalogs of Messier and d'Arrest before confirming the object's motion a few hours later. At the time it was located within the constellation Ursa Major, where he described the comet as "round, small, but bright". One of the first ephemerides of the comet were calculated on September 5.

The comet was moving inbound through the inner Solar System between September and October 1879, enabling further observations and refining orbital calculations. Pietro Tacchini measured the coma diameter as 1.7' on October 7. Ralph Copeland described the comet as "bright and round" on October 19 while measuring the comet's spectra.

References

Notes

  1. Reported initial position upon discovery was: α = 10 02.4 , δ = 49° 07′

Citations

  1. "Comet Names and Designations". International Comet Quarterly. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  2. "C/1879 Q1 (Palisa) – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  3. ^ G. W. Kronk (2003). Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. Vol. 2: 1800–1899. Cambridge University Press. pp. 445–447. ISBN 978-0-521-58505-7.
  4. L. Lindsay (1879). "Palisa's Comet" (PDF). Nature. 20 (515): 455. Bibcode:1879Natur..20..455L. doi:10.1038/020455b0.
  5. P. Tacchini (1879). "Observations of Comet Palisa, made with the Merz Equatoreal of the Collegio Romano" (PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 40 (2): 72–73. doi:10.1093/mnras/40.2.72.
  6. L. Lindsay (1879). "Observations of the Spectrum of Comet 1879 d (Palisa)" (PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 40 (1): 23–25. doi:10.1093/mnras/40.1.23.

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