C/2020 F5 (MASTER) is a long period comet discovered on 28 March 2020,[1] by the MASTER auto-detection system near San Juan, Argentina. When first discovered there were dubious claims that it might be an interstellar object,[2] but now it is known to have a common weakly hyperbolic eccentricity of just 1.0007.[3] Before planetary perturbations the comet had an orbital period of about 36000 years.

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C/2020 F5 (MASTER)

C/2020 F5 (MASTER) orbit on April 20, 2020
Discovery
Discovered by	MASTER
Discovery date	March 28, 2020
Orbital characteristics A
Epoch	2020-Apr-06 2458945.5
Observation arc	39 days
Perihelion	4.32 AU
Eccentricity	1.0007
Orbital period	~36000 yrs (inbound) ~1800 yrs (outbound)
Inclination	51.69°
Earth MOID	3.5 AU
Last perihelion	2021-Mar-23

Notes

External links

• C/2020 F5 ( MASTER )
• JPL Small-Body Database Browser

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