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63P/Wild is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 13.21 years.

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63P/Wild

Discovery
Discovered by	Paul Wild at the Zimmerwald Observatory, Switzerland
Discovery date	26 March 1960
Orbital characteristics A
Aphelion	9.2249 AU
Perihelion	1.9508 AU
Semi-major axis	5.5906 AU
Eccentricity	0.6509
Orbital period	13.21 yr
Inclination	19.7799°
Last perihelion	2013-Apr-10
Next perihelion	2026-Jul-06[1]

It was first detected by Paul Wild at the Zimmerwald Observatory of the Astronomical Institute of Bern, Switzerland on a photographic plate exposed on 26 March 1960, who estimated its brightness at a magnitude of 14.3. Its elliptical orbit was then calculated to have an orbital period of 13.17 years.[2]

Its predicted reappearance in 1973 was observed by Elizabeth Roemer of the U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona at a magnitude of 17.5. Although not found in 1986 it was rediscovered in 1999 with a magnitude of around 12.

The 2013 return was moderately favourable with magnitude again around 12.

See also

• List of numbered comets

References

Numbered comets
Previous 62P/Tsuchinshan	63P/Wild	Next 64P/Swift–Gehrels

На других языках

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- [en] 63P/Wild

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[ru] 63P/Вильда

Комета Вильда 1 (63P/Wild) — короткопериодическая комета из семейства Юпитера, которая была открыта 26 марта 1960 года швейцарским астрономом Паулем Вильдом на фотопластинке, полученной с телескопа обсерватории Циммервальда Астрономического института университета Берна (Швейцария). Он описал её как диффузный объект 14,3 m видимой звёздной величины в созвездии Льва. Обладает довольно коротким периодом обращения вокруг Солнца — чуть более 14,90 года.

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