Comet Encke/ˈɛŋki/, or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This is the shortest period of a reasonably bright comet; the faint main-belt comet 311P/PanSTARRS has a period of 3.2 years.) Encke was first recorded by Pierre Méchain on 17 January 1786,[3] but it was not recognized as a periodic comet until 1819 when its orbit was computed by Johann Franz Encke. Like Halley's Comet, it is unusual in its being named after the calculator of its orbit rather than its discoverer. Like most comets, it has a very low albedo, reflecting only 4.6% of the light its nucleus receives, although comets generate a large coma and tail that can make them much more visible during their perihelion (closest approach to the Sun). The diameter of the nucleus of Encke's Comet is 4.8 km.[1]
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CometEncke /ˈɛŋki/, or Encke'sComet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This...
comet became known as Halley's Comet. Similarly, the second and third known periodic comets, Encke'sComet and Biela's Comet, were named after the astronomers...
the cometEncke. The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke...
astronomer Ľubor Kresák suggested that the body was a fragment of CometEncke, a periodic comet with a period of just over three years that stays entirely within...
has speculated that the comet was CometEncke, although this is not widely accepted. Based on the ancient Greek belief that comets were the source of celestial...
the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. Encke was born in Hamburg...
was on the 20th of April 2007 when the ion tail of cometEncke was completely severed as the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event...
Encke (crater), a lunar crater Encke Division, a dark gap in the rings of Saturn CometEncke, a short-period cometEncke (horse) (2009–2014), a thoroughbred...
The two comets scheduled to be visited were Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and the third target was d'Arrest. It was hoped that a new comet would have...
such as 2P/Encke and 27P/Crommelin they were named for a person who calculated their orbits (the orbit computers). The long-term orbits of comets can be difficult...
2P may refer to: 2P/Encke, official designation of CometEncke 2p, an arm of Chromosome 2 (human) 2p, an atomic orbital for electrons Two-photon absorption...
Theory". The Origin of Comets. Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-034859-9. Whipple, F (1950). "A Comet Model. I: the Acceleration of CometEncke". Astrophysical Journal...
Comet dust refers to cosmic dust that originates from a comet. Comet dust can provide clues to comets' origin. When the Earth passes through a comet dust...
Comet, other periodic comets have been discovered through the use of the telescope. The second comet found to have a periodic orbit was Encke'sComet...
designated 27P/Crommelin). This is similar to the case of CometEncke, where the periodic comet is named after the person who determined the orbit rather...
unquestioned priority as discoverer of five of the comets and rediscovered CometEncke in 1795. Five of her comets were published in Philosophical Transactions...
surface by meteors both sporadic and in a meteor shower associated with CometEncke. In 2008 the MESSENGER probe's Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS)...
calculating the orbit of CometEncke, taking into account the perturbations of various planets. He used observations of CometEncke to try estimate the mass...
of the dust at Earth's orbit. They studied the dust ejected in 1866 by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle before the anticipated Leonid shower return of 1898 and...
1980, Arecibo made the first radar observation of a comet when it successfully detected CometEncke. In August 1989, the observatory directly imaged an...
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