C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
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c-2021-a1-leonard-313-17320107
title:
C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
text:
C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was a long period comet that was discovered by G. J. Leonard at the Mount Lemmon Observatory on 3 January 2021 when the comet was 5 AU (750 million km) from the Sun. It had a retrograde orbit. The nucleus was about 1 km (0.6 mi) across. It came within 4 million km (2.5 million mi) of Venus, the closest-known cometary approach to Venus.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Hyperbolic comet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2021_A1_(Leonard)
date created:
date modified:
2024-01-27T14:56:31Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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15