162P/Siding Spring
id:
162p-siding-spring-178-4957616
title:
162P/Siding Spring
text:
162P/Siding Spring is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 5.3 years. It was discovered in images obtained on 10 October 2004 as part of the Siding Spring Survey. The comet was discovered during the Siding Spring Survey as an asteroidal object shining with an apparent magnitude of 14.1 but a tail extending for about 4 arcminutes was observed on 12 November 2004, indicating that it is a comet. The tail grew longer the next days, reaching a length of over 10 arcminutes on 15 November.
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Periodic comet with 5 year orbit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162P/Siding_Spring
date created:
2018-02-13T12:01:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:26:16Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/P2004TU12_20041112_J87.jpg","width":743,"height":500}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16