170P/Christensen
{{Short description|Periodic comet with 8 year orbit}}
{{Infobox comet
| name=170P/Christensen
| image=
| discoverer=Eric J. Christensen
| discovery_date=June 17, 2005
| designations=P/2005 M1
| epoch=March 6, 2006
| semimajor=4.208 AU
| perihelion=2.93 AU
| aphelion=5.487 AU
| eccentricity=0.3038
| period=8.633 a
| inclination= 10.1255°
| last_p=September 17, 2014
January 26, 2006
}}
170P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It came to perihelion in September 2014 at about apparent magnitude 18.
References
{{reflist
| refs =
|title=170P/Christensen Orbit
|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=170P
|publisher=Minor Planet Center
|accessdate=2017-04-09}}
|date=2011-11-03
|title=170P/Christensen (NK 2153)
|publisher=OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections
|author=Syuichi Nakano
|author-link=Syuichi Nakano
|url=http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk/nk2153.htm
|accessdate=2012-02-25}}
}}
External links
- [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=170P;orb=1 Orbital simulation] from JPL (Java) / [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&body_group=sb&sstr=170P Horizons Ephemeris]
- [http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0170P/index.html 170P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101053/http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=c&o=0170P Elements and Ephemeris for 170P/Christensen] – Minor Planet Center
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