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92P/Sanguin

92P/Sanguin, also called Sanguin's Comet or Comet Sanguin, is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 1977, by Juan G. Sanguin at Leoncito Astronomical Complex.

Physical characteristics Initial estimates suggest that the comet completes a single rotation approximately once every 6 days, however this was revised to just only 6.2 hours. The nucleus of the comet has a radius of about 1.19 km (0.74 mi) based on observations by the Keck Observatory, assuming a geometric albedo of 0.04.

References

External links 92P/Sanguin at the JPL Small-Body Database 92P/Sanguin at Seiichi Yoshida's website

Tags

  • Astronomical objects discovered in 1977
  • Astronomical objects discovered in 1989
  • Comet stubs
  • Comets in 2015
  • Jupiter-family comets
  • Numbered comets
  • Periodic comets