159P/LONEOS

159P/LONEOS
Discovery
Discovered by	LONEOS
Discovery date	October 16, 2003
Alternative designations	P/2003 UD₁₆
Orbital characteristics ^A
Epoch	March 6, 2006
Aphelion	8.125 AU
Perihelion	3.651 AU
Semi-major axis	5.888 AU
Eccentricity	0.3799
Orbital period	14.29 a
Inclination	23.4219°
Last perihelion	March 2, 2004
Next perihelion	May 22, 2018^[1]^[2]

159P/LONEOS is a periodic comet in the solar system.

References

↑ "159P/LONEOS Orbit". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
↑ Syuichi Nakano (2004-01-19). "159P/LONEOS (NK 1024)". OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections. Retrieved 2012-02-25.

External links

Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
159P/LONEOS – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net
159P at Kronk's Cometography

Comets

Features	Nucleus Coma Tails Antitail Comet dust Meteor shower

Types	Periodic Numbered Lost Halley-type Jupiter-family Encke-type Main-belt Non-periodic Hyperbolic Unknown-orbit Great Comet Sungrazing (Kreutz) Extinct Exocomet Interstellar

Related	Naming of comets Centaur Comet discoverers LINEAR Extraterrestrial atmospheres Oort cloud Small Solar System body Asteroid

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Latest	C/2015 G2 (MASTER) C/2015 F5 (SWAN-XingMing) C/2015 F3 C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) C/2014 E2 (Jacques) C/2013 US10 (Catalina) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)

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Lost

Recovered	11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR 15P/Finlay 17P/Holmes 27P/Crommelin 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT 69P/Taylor 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 113P/Spitaler 107P/Wilson–Harrington 177P/Barnard 206P/Barnard–Boattini

Not recovered	D/1770 L1 (Lexell) 3D/Biela 5D/Brorsen 18D/Perrine–Mrkos 20D/Westphal 25D/Neujmin 34D/Gale 75D/Kohoutek

Asteroids with
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2060 Chiron (95P)
7968 Elst–Pizarro (133P)
4015 Wilson–Harrington (107P)
60558 Echeclus (174P)
118401 LINEAR (176P), formerly 1999 RE70

Non-periodic
comets

Until 1910	C/-43 K1 (Caesar's Comet) X/1106 C1 (Great Comet of 1106) C/1577 V1 (Great Comet of 1577) C/1652 Y1 C/1680 V1 (Great Comet of 1680, Kirsch's Comet, Newton's Comet)) C/1702 H1 (Comet of 1702) C/1729 P1 (Comet of 1729, Comet Sarabat) C/1743 X1 (Great Comet of 1744, Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux) C/1760 A1 (Great Comet of 1760) C/1769 P1 (Great Comet of 1769) C/1807 R1 (Great Comet of 1807) C/1811 F1 (Great Comet of 1811) C/1819 N1 (Great Comet of 1819) C/1823 Y1 (Great Comet of 1823) C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet of 1843) C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet) C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati) C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher) C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861) X/1872 X1 (Pogson's Comet) C/1882 R1 (Great Comet of 1882) C/1887 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1887) C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910)

After 1910	C/1911 O1 (Brooks) C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky) C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany) C/1931 P1 (Ryves) C/1948 V1 (Eclipse) C/1956 R1 (Arend–Roland) C/1961 R1 (Humason) C/1963 R1 (Pereyra) C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) C/1969 Y1 (Bennett) C/1970 K1 (White–Ortiz–Bolelli) C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) C/1975 V1 (West) C/1980 E1 (Bowell) C/1983 H1 (IRAS–Araki–Alcock) C/1989 X1 (Austin) C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko–George) C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch–Rabinowitz) C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell) C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp) C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) C/1997 L1 (Zhu–Balam) C/1998 H1 (Stonehouse) C/1999 F1 (Catalina) C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) C/2000 U5 (LINEAR) C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones) C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS) C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) C/2006 A1 (Pojmański) C/2006 M4 (SWAN) C/2006 P1 (McNaught) C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) C/2007 K5 (Lovejoy) C/2007 N3 (Lulin) C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) C/2007 W1 (Boattini) C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN) C/2009 R1 (McNaught) C/2010 X1 (Elenin) C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) C/2012 E2 (SWAN) C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 S1 (ISON) C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) C/2013 US10 (Catalina) C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) C/2014 E2 (Jacques) C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

After 1910 (by name)	Arend–Roland Austin Beljawsky Bennett Boattini Bowell Brooks Catalina C/1999 F1 C/2013 US10 Eclipse Elenin Hale-Bopp Humason Hyakutake Ikeya-Seki IRAS–Araki–Alcock ISON Jacques Kohoutek Lemmon LINEAR C/1999 S4 C/2000 U5 C/2002 T7 LONEOS C/2001 OG108 C/2007 F1 Lovejoy C/2007 E2 C/2007 K5 C/2011 W3 C/2013 R1 C/2014 Q2 Lulin Machholz McNaught C/2006 P1 C/2009 R1 McNaught–Russell NEAT Oukaimeden Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4 C/2012 K1 C/2012 S4 311P Pereyra Pojmański Ryves Spacewatch–Rabinowitz Siding Spring C/2007 Q3 C/2013 A1 Skjellerup–Maristany Skorichenko–George Stonehouse SWAN C/2006 M4 C/2012 E2 Utsunomiya–Jones West White–Ortiz–Bolelli Yi–SWAN Zhu–Balam

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