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Recent Dynamical History of the Six Short-Period Comets Discovered in 1975

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Hans Rickman
Hans Rickman*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Nice, France

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In 1975 a remarkably large number of short-period comets were discovered - only the most recent number from 1977 is comparable. While the average discovery rate has been 0.8-1.0 new short-period comets per year (Kresák 1974), in 1975 there were six discoveries. In five of the cases IAU Circulars soon afterwards contained indications that close encounters with Jupiter had recently taken place (Marsden 1975, Kastel' 1975). For two of the comets, P/Kohoutek and P/Smirnova-Chernykh, also pre-encounter orbital elements were outlined, suggesting that substantial reductions of the perihelion distances had occurred.

Type
Part VI: Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 81: Dynamics of the Solar System , 1979 , pp. 293 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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