| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovery date: | October 13, 1892 |
| Alternate designations: | D/1892 T1; P/1892 T1; 1892e; 1892 V; P/2008 T3 |
| Orbital characteristics A | |
| Epoch: | October 21, 2008 (JD 2454760.5) |
| Aphelion distance: | 5.332981 AU |
| Perihelion distance: | 1.145243 AU |
| Semi-major axis: | 3.239112 AU |
| Eccentricity: | 0.646433 |
| Orbital period: | 5.83 a |
| Inclination: | 32.9309° |
| Last perihelion: | October 25, 2008 |
| Next perihelion: | August 27, 2014 |
206P/Barnard-Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means.[1] The American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard did so on the night of October 13, 1892.
After this apparition this comet was lost and was thus designated D/1892 T1.
Ľuboš Neslušan (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) suggests that 14P/Wolf and this comet are siblings which stem from a common parent comet.[2]
This comet was accidentally rediscovered on October 7, 2008 by Andrea Boattini in the course of the Mt. Lemmon Survey.[1] The comet has made 20 revolutions since 1892 and passed within 0.3 - 0.4 AU from Jupiter in 1922, 1934 and 2005.[3][4]
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