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42P/Neujmin

Index 42P/Neujmin

42P/Neujmin, also known as Neujmin 3, is a periodic comet 2 km in diameter. [1]

9 relations: Astronomical unit, Comet, Comet nucleus, Grigory Neujmin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Julian year (astronomy), List of periodic comets, 4 Vesta, 53P/Van Biesbroeck.

Astronomical unit

The astronomical unit (symbol: au, ua, or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun.

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Comet

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.

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Comet nucleus

The nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, popularly termed a dirty snowball or an icy dirtball.

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Grigory Neujmin

Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin (Григорий Николаевич Неуймин; –December 17, 1946) was a Georgian–Russian astronomer, native of Tbilisi in Georgia, and a discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Pulkovo and Simeiz Observatories during the first half of the 20th century.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

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Julian year (astronomy)

In astronomy, a Julian year (symbol: a) is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of SI seconds each.

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List of periodic comets

Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets having orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang).

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4 Vesta

Vesta, minor-planet designation 4 Vesta, is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.

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53P/Van Biesbroeck

53P/Van Biesbroeck is a periodic comet 7 km in diameter.

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Redirects here:

Neujmin 3, Neujmin-3.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42P/Neujmin

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