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C/1911 S2 (Quénisset)

C/1911 S2 (Quénisset)

Comet Quénisset, also known by its modern formal designation C/1911 S2, is a non-periodic comet that has a 4,000-year retrograde orbit around the Sun. It is the second of two comets discovered by French astronomer, Ferdinand Quénisset.

Potential meteor shower Orbital calculations by J. B. Dale revealed that although there would be no close encounter between the comet and the Earth, the former's descending node resulted in a minimum orbit intersection distance of about 0.0172 AU (2.57 million km) by 16 December 1911. This has led to other scientists predicting a meteor shower originating from this comet that will be coming from the constellation Vulpecula on 27 April of each year, though none has been observed so far.

References

External links C/1911 S2 at the JPL Small-Body Database

Tags

  • Astronomical objects discovered in 1911
  • Comet stubs
  • Near-Earth comets
  • Non-periodic comets