114P/Wiseman–Skiff

{{Short description|Periodic comet with 6 year orbit}}

{{Infobox Comet

| name=114P/Wiseman-Skiff

| image=114P 2020-01-22 NEOWISE image 3-color.png

| discoverer=Jennifer Wiseman
Brian A. Skiff

| discovery_date=December 28, 1986

| designations=1986 Y1; 1987b; 1993 IX; 1993u; 1993 X2

| epoch=May 28, 2013{{cite web |url=http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=c&o=0114P |title=Elements and Ephemeris for 114P/Wiseman-Skiff|access-date=2011-05-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195429/http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=c&o=0114P |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}

| Jupiter_moid={{Convert|0.182|AU|e6km|abbr=unit}}

| semimajor=3.5436 AU

| perihelion= 1.5748 AU

| aphelion=5.5124 AU

| eccentricity=0.55558

| period=6.67 a

| inclination= 18.284°

| physical_ref = {{r|Lamy_2009|Knight_2023}}

| mean_radius = {{val|0.78|0.05}} km

| spectral_type = (V–R) {{=}} {{val|0.46|0.02}}

| last_p=January 14, 2020{{cite web

|title=114P/Wiseman-Skiff Orbit

|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=114P

|publisher=Minor Planet Center

|access-date=2014-06-17}}
May 13, 2013[http://jcometobs.web.fc2.com/pcmtn/0114p.htm 114P at Kazuo Kinoshita home page]
September 13, 2006

| next_p=2026-Sep-15

}}

114P/Wiseman–Skiff is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

It was discovered by Jennifer Wiseman in January 1987 on two photographic plates that had been taken on December 28, 1986, by Brian A. Skiff of Lowell Observatory. Wiseman and Skiff confirmed the comet on January 19, 1987.

Comet 114P/Wiseman–Skiff is believed to have been the parent body of a meteor shower on Mars and the source of the first meteor photographed from Mars on March 7, 2004.{{cite journal | doi=10.1038/435581a | title=A martian meteor and its parent comet | year=2005 | last1=Selsis | first1=Franck | last2=Lemmon | first2=Mark T. | last3=Vaubaillon | first3=Jérémie | last4=Bell | first4=James F. | journal=Nature | volume=435 | issue=7042 | page=581 | pmid=15931208 | s2cid=4336487 | doi-access=free }}

Aphelion is located near the orbit of Jupiter. On February 25, 2043, the comet will pass {{Convert|0.179|AU|e6km|abbr=unit}} from Jupiter.

The nucleus of the comet has a radius of {{val|0.78|0.05}} km, assuming a geometric albedo of 0.04.{{r|Lamy_2009}}