C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard)

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C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard)
Discovery
Discovered byA. Maury
G. Attard
Discovery date2021-05-09
Orbital characteristics
Perihelion1.741 AU
Eccentricity0.934
Orbital period135±2 years
Inclination92.72°
Last perihelion19 February 2021
Next perihelionearly 2154

C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard) is a Halley-type comet discovered on May 9, 2021, by French amateur astronomers Alain Maury and Georges Attard with the MAP (Maury/Attard/Parrott) observation program. It is the first comet discovered with the synthetic tracking technique, made possible with the Tycho Tracker commercial software developed by Daniel Parrott. When it was discovered, it had a magnitude of 19.

It has a 124 day observation arc. It came to perihelion on 19 February 2021. The next perihelion will be in early 2154.

References

  1. ^ a b "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Horizons Batch for C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard) around 2154" (Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive). JPL Horizons. Archived from the original on October 1, 2021. Retrieved June 22, 2022. (JPL#4 / Soln.date: 2022-Feb-03)
  3. ^ "ALPO COMET NEWS FOR MAY 2021". Cloudy Nights. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  4. ^ "New Comet C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard)". Comet Observation Database. Archived from the original on July 30, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  5. ^ a b Feldmann, Jean-Baptiste (June 7, 2021). "C/2021 J1 Maury-Attard, la comète française inespérée". CIELMANIA : le blog de Jean-Baptiste FELDMANN, photographe du ciel. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  6. ^ "MAP history and description". San Pedro de Atacama Celestial Explorations. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
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