4P/Faye
Faye's Comet as imaged by Luciano Tinelli on 15 November 2021 | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Hervé Faye |
| Discovery site | Royal Observatory, France |
| Discovery date | 23 November 1843 |
| Designations | |
| P/1843 W1, P/1850 W1 | |
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| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch | 25 February 2023 (JD 2460000.5) |
| Observation arc | 164.58 years |
| Number of observations | 7,603 |
| Aphelion | 6.034 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.619 AU |
| Semi-major axis | 3.827 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.57683 |
| Orbital period | 7.48 years |
| Inclination | 8.009° |
| 192.92° | |
| Argument of periapsis | 207.05° |
| Mean anomaly | 70.317° |
| Last perihelion | 8 September 2021 |
| Next perihelion | 9 March 2029 |
| TJupiter | 2.742 |
| Earth MOID | 0.589 AU |
| Jupiter MOID | 0.066 AU |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 1.77 km (1.10 mi) |
| (V–R) = 0.45±0.04 | |
| Comet total magnitude (M1) | 11.0 |
| Comet nuclear magnitude (M2) | 13.2 |
| Perihelion distance at different epochs | |||||||
| Epoch | Perihelion (AU) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1806 | 1.74 | ||||||
| 1843 | 1.69 | ||||||
| 1984 | 1.59 | ||||||
| 2102 | 1.51 | ||||||
4P/Faye (also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris. Its most recent perihelion occurred on 8 September 2021.