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Orbital elements of the first 147 comets
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comet perihelion q (AU) e i P (years)
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1P/Halley 1986 Feb. 9.4 0.587 0.967 162.24 76.00
2P/Encke 2000 Sep. 9.7 0.340 0.847 11.76 3.30
3D/Biela 1852 Sep. 23.5 0.861 0.756 12.55 6.62
4P/Faye 1999 May 6.1 1.657 0.568 9.05 7.52
5D/Brorsen 1879 Mar. 31.0 0.590 0.810 29.38 5.46
6P/d'Arrest 1995 July 27.3 1.346 0.614 19.52 6.51
7P/Pons-Winnecke 1996 Jan. 2.4 1.256 0.634 22.30 6.37
8P/Tuttle 1994 June 25.2 0.998 0.824 54.69 13.50
9P/Tempel 1 2000 Jan. 2.6 1.500 0.519 10.54 5.51
10P/Tempel 2 1999 Sept. 8.4 1.482 0.523 11.98 5.47
11D/Tempel-Swift 1908 Oct. 5.0 1.153 0.638 5.44 5.68
12P/Pons-Brooks 1954 May 22.8 0.774 0.955 74.18 70.90
13P/Olbers 1956 June 19.1 1.178 0.930 44.61 69.60
14P/Wolf 2000 Nov. 21.0 2.413 0.407 27.52 8.21
15P/Finlay 1995 May 5.0 1.036 0.710 3.67 6.76
16P/Brooks 2 2001 July 19.8 1.835 0.492 5.55 6.86
17P/Holmes 2000 May 11.8 2.165 0.412 19.19 7.07
18D/Perrine-Mrkos 1968 Nov. 1.5 1.272 0.643 17.76 6.72
19P/Borrelly 2001 Sep. 14.7 1.358 0.624 30.32 6.86
20D/Westphal 1913 Nov. 26.8 1.254 0.920 40.8 61.9
21P/Giacobini-Zinner 1998 Nov. 21.3 1.034 0.706 31.86 6.61
22P/Kopff 1996 July 2.1 1.580 0.544 4.72 6.45
23P/Brorsen-Metcalf 1989 Sep. 11.9 0.479 0.972 19.34 70.50
24P/Schaumasse 2001 May 2.657 1.205 0.705 11.75 8.25
25D/Neujmin 2 1927 Jan. 16.2 1.338 0.567 10.63 5.43
26P/Grigg-Skjellerup 1997 Aug. 30.3 0.997 0.664 21.09 5.11
27P/Crommelin 1984 Feb. 20.1 0.735 0.919 29.10 27.40
28P/Neujmin 1 1984 Oct. 8.2 1.553 0.776 14.18 18.20
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 1989 Oct. 26.7 5.772 0.045 9.37 14.90
30P/Reinmuth 1 1995 Sept. 3.3 1.874 0.502 8.13 7.31
31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2 1994 Jan. 23.9 2.070 0.399 3.75 6.39
32P/Comas Sola 1996 June 10.4 1.846 0.568 12.92 8.83
33P/Daniel 2000 June 23.5 2.157 0.464 22.41 8.07
34D/Gale 1938 June 18.5 1.183 0.761 11.73 11.0
35P/Herschel-Rigollet 1939 Aug. 9.4 0.748 0.974 64.21 15.50
36P/Whipple 1994 Dec. 22.4 3.094 0.259 9.93 8.53
37P/Forbes 1999 May 4.1 1.446 0.568 7.16 6.13
38P/Stephan-Oterma 1980 Dec. 5.1 1.574 0.860 17.98 37.70
39P/Oterma 1983 June 18.2 5.471 0.243 1.95 19.40
40P/Vaisala 1 1993 Apr. 29.1 1.783 0.635 11.60 10.80
41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak 2001 Jan. 6.9 1.052 0.659 9.23 5.43
42P/Neujmin 3 1993 Nov. 13.0 2.001 0.586 3.99 10.60
43P/Wolf-Harrington 1997 Sep. 29.2 1.582 0.544 18.51 6.46
44P/Reinmuth 2 2001 Feb. 19.9 1.890 0.465 6.98 6.63
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova 2001 Mar. 29.8 0.528 0.825 4.26 5.25
46P/Wirtanen 1997 Mar. 14.1 1.064 0.657 11.72 5.46
47P/Ashbrook-Jackson 2001 Jan. 6.4 2.305 0.396 12.51 7.46
48P/Johnson 1997 Oct. 31.8 2.308 0.367 13.66 6.97
49P/Arend-Rigaux 1998 July 12.5 1.369 0.612 18.29 6.61
50P/Arend 1999 Aug. 3.7 1.917 0.530 19.18 8.24
51P/Harrington 2001 June 5.8 1.568 0.562 8.66 6.77
52P/Harrington-Abell 1999 Jan. 27.8 1.756 0.543 10.22 7.53
53P/Van Biesbroeck 1991 Apr. 24.7 2.401 0.553 6.61 12.40
54P/de Vico-Swift 1995 Apr. 9.4 2.145 0.431 6.10 7.32
55P/Tempel-Tuttle 1998 Feb. 28.0 0.977 0.906 162.49 33.20
56P/Slaughter-Burnham 1993 June 22.4 2.543 0.504 8.16 11.60
57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte1996 Mar. 5.6 1.720 0.501 2.85 6.39
58P/Jackson-Neujmin 1995 Oct. 6.6 1.381 0.661 13.48 8.24
59P/Kearns-Kwee 1999 Sep. 16.3 2.339 0.477 9.35 9.45
60P/Tsuchinshan 2 1999 Mar. 8.1 1.770 0.506 6.72 6.79
61P/Shajn-Schaldach 2001 May 8.9 2.330 0.389 6.08 7.46
62P/Tsuchinshan 1 1998 Apr. 19.0 1.496 0.577 10.50 6.64
63P/Wild 1 1999 Dec. 27.4 1.961 0.650 19.93 13.20
64P/Swift-Gehrels 2000 Apr. 21.8 1.339 0.695 8.44 9.18
65P/Gunn 1996 July 24.3 2.462 0.316 10.38 6.83
66P/du Toit 1988 Dec. 25.9 1.273 0.788 18.70 14.70
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1996 Jan. 17.6 1.300 0.630 7.11 6.59
68P/Klemola 1998 May 1.6 1.755 0.641 11.09 10.80
69P/Taylor 1997 Dec. 12.2 1.948 0.466 20.55 6.97
70P/Kojima 2000 Sep. 14.8 2.003 0.454 6.60 7.04
71P/Clark 2000 Dec. 1.8 1.559 0.500 9.50 5.51
72P/Denning-Fujikawa 1996 May 29.7 0.790 0.818 9.13 9.03
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 2001 Jan. 27.7 0.937 0.694 11.41 5.36
74P/Smirnova-Chernykh 2001 Jan. 15.6 3.546 0.148 6.65 8.49
75P/Kohoutek 2001 Feb. 27.3 1.787 0.496 5.91 6.68
76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura 2000 June 1.2 1.596 0.540 30.50 6.46
77P/Longmore 1995 Oct. 9.3 2.399 0.343 24.41 6.98
78P/Gehrels 2 1997 Aug. 7.0 2.000 0.464 6.26 7.20
79P/du Toit-Hartley 1997 Nov. 14.5 1.201 0.601 2.94 5.22
80P/Peters-Hartley 1998 Aug. 11.6 1.624 0.598 29.86 8.12
81P/Wild 2 1997 May 6.6 1.583 0.540 3.24 6.39
82P/Gehrels 3 2001 Sept. 3.0 3.627 0.126 1.13 8.45
83P/Russell 1 1998 Aug. 26.1 2.182 0.438 17.75 7.64
84P/Giclas 1999 Aug. 25.1 1.846 0.494 7.28 6.96
85P/Boethin 1997 Apr. 17.7 1.158 0.774 4.88 11.60
86P/Wild 3 2001 June 18.6 2.310 0.364 15.44 6.93
87P/Bus 2000 Dec. 29.7 2.181 0.375 2.57 6.52
88P/Howell 1998 Sep. 27.2 1.406 0.553 4.40 5.57
89P/Russell 2 1994 Oct. 27.3 2.276 0.400 12.04 7.38
90P/Gehrels 1 1987 Aug. 10.2 2.989 0.510 9.62 15.10
91P/Russell 3 1997 Nov. 19.2 2.510 0.344 14.10 7.49
92P/Sanguin 1990 Apr. 2.1 1.814 0.663 18.72 12.50
93P/Lovas 1 1998 Oct. 14.1 1.692 0.613 12.24 9.14
94P/Russell 4 1997 Feb. 3.4 2.229 0.365 6.19 6.58
95P/Chiron 1996 Feb. 14.7 8.454 0.383 6.93 50.7
96P/Machholz 1 1996 Oct. 15.0 0.125 0.959 60.07 5.24
97P/Metcalf-Brewington 2001 Apr. 10.2 2.605 0.457 17.95 10.50
98P/Takamizawa 1998 Nov. 7.9 1.585 0.575 9.49 7.21
99P/Kowal 1 1992 Mar. 13.0 4.673 0.232 4.39 15.00
100P/Hartley 1 1997 May 28.5 1.819 0.451 25.72 6.02
101P/Chernykh 1992 Jan. 25.4 2.356 0.594 5.08 14.00
102P/Shoemaker 1 1999 Mar. 16.9 1.979 0.472 26.26 7.25
103P/Hartley 2 1997 Dec. 22.0 1.032 0.700 13.62 6.39
104P/Kowal 2 1998 Mar. 2.1 1.397 0.585 15.49 6.18
105P/Singer Brewster 1999 Apr. 6.4 2.032 0.413 9.19 6.44
106P/Schuster 1999 Dec. 16.2 1.550 0.588 20.14 7.29
107P/Wilson-Harrington 1996 Dec. 6.4 1.000 0.622 2.78 4.30
108P/Ciffreo 2000 Apr. 18.4 1.713 0.543 13.09 7.25
109P/Swift-Tuttle 1992 Dec. 12.3 0.958 0.964 113.43 13.50
110P/Hartley 3 2001 Mar. 21.4 2.478 0.315 11.69 6.88
111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett 1996 Oct. 31.7 3.490 0.139 4.23 8.16
112P/Urata-Niijima 2000 Mar. 4.3 1.458 0.588 24.20 6.65
113P/Spitaler 2001 Feb. 25.8 2.127 0.424 5.78 7.09
114P/Wiseman-Skiff 2000 Jan. 11.7 1.569 0.556 18.29 6.66
115P/Maury 1994 Mar. 18.7 2.026 0.522 11.69 8.74
116P/Wild 4 1996 Aug. 31.2 1.989 0.408 3.72 6.16
117P/Helin-Roman-Alu 1 1997 Mar. 26.8 3.715 0.176 9.74 9.57
118P/Shoemaker-Levy 4 1997 Jan. 12.1 2.021 0.421 8.47 6.51
119P/Parker-Hartley 1996 June 24.8 3.045 0.291 5.19 8.89
120P/Mueller 1 1996 Apr. 24.6 2.739 0.337 8.80 8.41
121P/Shoemaker-Holt 2 1996 Aug. 20.0 2.664 0.337 17.70 8.05
122P/de Vico 1995 Oct. 6.0 0.659 0.963 85.39 74.40
123P/West-Hartley 1996 May 12.8 2.133 0.448 15.35 7.59
124P/Mrkos 1996 Nov. 9.0 1.413 0.554 31.47 5.64
125P/Spacewatch 1996 July 14.5 1.540 0.509 9.97 5.56
126P/IRAS 1996 Oct. 29.9 1.703 0.697 45.96 13.30
127P/Holt-Olmstead 1997 Feb. 6.6 2.153 0.370 14.41 6.33
128P/Shoemaker-Holt 1-B 1997 Nov. 20.2 3.047 0.321 4.36 9.51
129P/Shoemaker-Levy 3 1998 Mar. 4.8 2.817 0.248 5.01 7.25
130P/McNaught-Hughes 1998 Feb. 23.7 2.116 0.404 7.30 6.69
131P/Mueller 2 1997 Nov. 22.2 2.412 0.344 7.36 7.05
132P/Helin-Roman-Alu 2 1997 Nov. 10.0 1.910 0.532 5.78 8.24
133P/Elst-Pizarro 2001 Nov. 23.7 2.635 0.166 1.39 5.60
134P/Kowal-VAprova 1998 Nov. 18.8 2.575 0.587 4.35 15.60
135P/Shoemaker-Levy 8 1999 Dec. 10.5 2.721 0.290 6.05 7.49
136P/Mueller 3 1999 Mar. 20.5 3.011 0.289 9.41 8.71
137P/Shoemaker-Levy 2 2000 Feb. 6.0 1.869 0.580 4.66 9.38
138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 1998 Aug. 24.5 1.697 0.531 10.09 6.89
139P/Vaisala-Oterma 1998 Sep. 28.8 3.382 0.248 2.33 9.54
140P/Bowell-Skiff 1999 May 14.8 1.972 0.692 3.84 16.20
141P/Machholz 2 1999 Dec. 10.0 0.749 0.751 12.81 5.22
142P/Ge-Wang 1999 June 21.5 2.496 0.500 12.17 11.20
143P/Kowal-Mrkos 2000 July 1.8 2.547 0.409 4.68 8.95
144P/Kushida 2001 June 27.7 1.431 0.629 4.12 7.58
145P/Shoemaker-Levy 5 2000 Aug. 17.1 1.989 0.529 11.77 8.69
146P/Shoemaker-LINEAR 2000 July 14.3 1.319 0.667 21.62 7.88
147P/Kushida-Muramatsu 2001 Apr. 29.5 2.752 0.277 2.36 7.44
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This table provides the nearest date of the passage at perihelion (past or future),
the distance to perihelion q, the eccentricity e, the inclination i and the orbital period P
comet perihelion q (AU) e i P (years)
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1P/Halley 1986 Feb. 9.4 0.587 0.967 162.24 76.00
2P/Encke 2000 Sep. 9.7 0.340 0.847 11.76 3.30
3D/Biela 1852 Sep. 23.5 0.861 0.756 12.55 6.62
4P/Faye 1999 May 6.1 1.657 0.568 9.05 7.52
5D/Brorsen 1879 Mar. 31.0 0.590 0.810 29.38 5.46
6P/d'Arrest 1995 July 27.3 1.346 0.614 19.52 6.51
7P/Pons-Winnecke 1996 Jan. 2.4 1.256 0.634 22.30 6.37
8P/Tuttle 1994 June 25.2 0.998 0.824 54.69 13.50
9P/Tempel 1 2000 Jan. 2.6 1.500 0.519 10.54 5.51
10P/Tempel 2 1999 Sept. 8.4 1.482 0.523 11.98 5.47
11D/Tempel-Swift 1908 Oct. 5.0 1.153 0.638 5.44 5.68
12P/Pons-Brooks 1954 May 22.8 0.774 0.955 74.18 70.90
13P/Olbers 1956 June 19.1 1.178 0.930 44.61 69.60
14P/Wolf 2000 Nov. 21.0 2.413 0.407 27.52 8.21
15P/Finlay 1995 May 5.0 1.036 0.710 3.67 6.76
16P/Brooks 2 2001 July 19.8 1.835 0.492 5.55 6.86
17P/Holmes 2000 May 11.8 2.165 0.412 19.19 7.07
18D/Perrine-Mrkos 1968 Nov. 1.5 1.272 0.643 17.76 6.72
19P/Borrelly 2001 Sep. 14.7 1.358 0.624 30.32 6.86
20D/Westphal 1913 Nov. 26.8 1.254 0.920 40.8 61.9
21P/Giacobini-Zinner 1998 Nov. 21.3 1.034 0.706 31.86 6.61
22P/Kopff 1996 July 2.1 1.580 0.544 4.72 6.45
23P/Brorsen-Metcalf 1989 Sep. 11.9 0.479 0.972 19.34 70.50
24P/Schaumasse 2001 May 2.657 1.205 0.705 11.75 8.25
25D/Neujmin 2 1927 Jan. 16.2 1.338 0.567 10.63 5.43
26P/Grigg-Skjellerup 1997 Aug. 30.3 0.997 0.664 21.09 5.11
27P/Crommelin 1984 Feb. 20.1 0.735 0.919 29.10 27.40
28P/Neujmin 1 1984 Oct. 8.2 1.553 0.776 14.18 18.20
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 1989 Oct. 26.7 5.772 0.045 9.37 14.90
30P/Reinmuth 1 1995 Sept. 3.3 1.874 0.502 8.13 7.31
31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2 1994 Jan. 23.9 2.070 0.399 3.75 6.39
32P/Comas Sola 1996 June 10.4 1.846 0.568 12.92 8.83
33P/Daniel 2000 June 23.5 2.157 0.464 22.41 8.07
34D/Gale 1938 June 18.5 1.183 0.761 11.73 11.0
35P/Herschel-Rigollet 1939 Aug. 9.4 0.748 0.974 64.21 15.50
36P/Whipple 1994 Dec. 22.4 3.094 0.259 9.93 8.53
37P/Forbes 1999 May 4.1 1.446 0.568 7.16 6.13
38P/Stephan-Oterma 1980 Dec. 5.1 1.574 0.860 17.98 37.70
39P/Oterma 1983 June 18.2 5.471 0.243 1.95 19.40
40P/Vaisala 1 1993 Apr. 29.1 1.783 0.635 11.60 10.80
41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak 2001 Jan. 6.9 1.052 0.659 9.23 5.43
42P/Neujmin 3 1993 Nov. 13.0 2.001 0.586 3.99 10.60
43P/Wolf-Harrington 1997 Sep. 29.2 1.582 0.544 18.51 6.46
44P/Reinmuth 2 2001 Feb. 19.9 1.890 0.465 6.98 6.63
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova 2001 Mar. 29.8 0.528 0.825 4.26 5.25
46P/Wirtanen 1997 Mar. 14.1 1.064 0.657 11.72 5.46
47P/Ashbrook-Jackson 2001 Jan. 6.4 2.305 0.396 12.51 7.46
48P/Johnson 1997 Oct. 31.8 2.308 0.367 13.66 6.97
49P/Arend-Rigaux 1998 July 12.5 1.369 0.612 18.29 6.61
50P/Arend 1999 Aug. 3.7 1.917 0.530 19.18 8.24
51P/Harrington 2001 June 5.8 1.568 0.562 8.66 6.77
52P/Harrington-Abell 1999 Jan. 27.8 1.756 0.543 10.22 7.53
53P/Van Biesbroeck 1991 Apr. 24.7 2.401 0.553 6.61 12.40
54P/de Vico-Swift 1995 Apr. 9.4 2.145 0.431 6.10 7.32
55P/Tempel-Tuttle 1998 Feb. 28.0 0.977 0.906 162.49 33.20
56P/Slaughter-Burnham 1993 June 22.4 2.543 0.504 8.16 11.60
57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte1996 Mar. 5.6 1.720 0.501 2.85 6.39
58P/Jackson-Neujmin 1995 Oct. 6.6 1.381 0.661 13.48 8.24
59P/Kearns-Kwee 1999 Sep. 16.3 2.339 0.477 9.35 9.45
60P/Tsuchinshan 2 1999 Mar. 8.1 1.770 0.506 6.72 6.79
61P/Shajn-Schaldach 2001 May 8.9 2.330 0.389 6.08 7.46
62P/Tsuchinshan 1 1998 Apr. 19.0 1.496 0.577 10.50 6.64
63P/Wild 1 1999 Dec. 27.4 1.961 0.650 19.93 13.20
64P/Swift-Gehrels 2000 Apr. 21.8 1.339 0.695 8.44 9.18
65P/Gunn 1996 July 24.3 2.462 0.316 10.38 6.83
66P/du Toit 1988 Dec. 25.9 1.273 0.788 18.70 14.70
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1996 Jan. 17.6 1.300 0.630 7.11 6.59
68P/Klemola 1998 May 1.6 1.755 0.641 11.09 10.80
69P/Taylor 1997 Dec. 12.2 1.948 0.466 20.55 6.97
70P/Kojima 2000 Sep. 14.8 2.003 0.454 6.60 7.04
71P/Clark 2000 Dec. 1.8 1.559 0.500 9.50 5.51
72P/Denning-Fujikawa 1996 May 29.7 0.790 0.818 9.13 9.03
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 2001 Jan. 27.7 0.937 0.694 11.41 5.36
74P/Smirnova-Chernykh 2001 Jan. 15.6 3.546 0.148 6.65 8.49
75P/Kohoutek 2001 Feb. 27.3 1.787 0.496 5.91 6.68
76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura 2000 June 1.2 1.596 0.540 30.50 6.46
77P/Longmore 1995 Oct. 9.3 2.399 0.343 24.41 6.98
78P/Gehrels 2 1997 Aug. 7.0 2.000 0.464 6.26 7.20
79P/du Toit-Hartley 1997 Nov. 14.5 1.201 0.601 2.94 5.22
80P/Peters-Hartley 1998 Aug. 11.6 1.624 0.598 29.86 8.12
81P/Wild 2 1997 May 6.6 1.583 0.540 3.24 6.39
82P/Gehrels 3 2001 Sept. 3.0 3.627 0.126 1.13 8.45
83P/Russell 1 1998 Aug. 26.1 2.182 0.438 17.75 7.64
84P/Giclas 1999 Aug. 25.1 1.846 0.494 7.28 6.96
85P/Boethin 1997 Apr. 17.7 1.158 0.774 4.88 11.60
86P/Wild 3 2001 June 18.6 2.310 0.364 15.44 6.93
87P/Bus 2000 Dec. 29.7 2.181 0.375 2.57 6.52
88P/Howell 1998 Sep. 27.2 1.406 0.553 4.40 5.57
89P/Russell 2 1994 Oct. 27.3 2.276 0.400 12.04 7.38
90P/Gehrels 1 1987 Aug. 10.2 2.989 0.510 9.62 15.10
91P/Russell 3 1997 Nov. 19.2 2.510 0.344 14.10 7.49
92P/Sanguin 1990 Apr. 2.1 1.814 0.663 18.72 12.50
93P/Lovas 1 1998 Oct. 14.1 1.692 0.613 12.24 9.14
94P/Russell 4 1997 Feb. 3.4 2.229 0.365 6.19 6.58
95P/Chiron 1996 Feb. 14.7 8.454 0.383 6.93 50.7
96P/Machholz 1 1996 Oct. 15.0 0.125 0.959 60.07 5.24
97P/Metcalf-Brewington 2001 Apr. 10.2 2.605 0.457 17.95 10.50
98P/Takamizawa 1998 Nov. 7.9 1.585 0.575 9.49 7.21
99P/Kowal 1 1992 Mar. 13.0 4.673 0.232 4.39 15.00
100P/Hartley 1 1997 May 28.5 1.819 0.451 25.72 6.02
101P/Chernykh 1992 Jan. 25.4 2.356 0.594 5.08 14.00
102P/Shoemaker 1 1999 Mar. 16.9 1.979 0.472 26.26 7.25
103P/Hartley 2 1997 Dec. 22.0 1.032 0.700 13.62 6.39
104P/Kowal 2 1998 Mar. 2.1 1.397 0.585 15.49 6.18
105P/Singer Brewster 1999 Apr. 6.4 2.032 0.413 9.19 6.44
106P/Schuster 1999 Dec. 16.2 1.550 0.588 20.14 7.29
107P/Wilson-Harrington 1996 Dec. 6.4 1.000 0.622 2.78 4.30
108P/Ciffreo 2000 Apr. 18.4 1.713 0.543 13.09 7.25
109P/Swift-Tuttle 1992 Dec. 12.3 0.958 0.964 113.43 13.50
110P/Hartley 3 2001 Mar. 21.4 2.478 0.315 11.69 6.88
111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett 1996 Oct. 31.7 3.490 0.139 4.23 8.16
112P/Urata-Niijima 2000 Mar. 4.3 1.458 0.588 24.20 6.65
113P/Spitaler 2001 Feb. 25.8 2.127 0.424 5.78 7.09
114P/Wiseman-Skiff 2000 Jan. 11.7 1.569 0.556 18.29 6.66
115P/Maury 1994 Mar. 18.7 2.026 0.522 11.69 8.74
116P/Wild 4 1996 Aug. 31.2 1.989 0.408 3.72 6.16
117P/Helin-Roman-Alu 1 1997 Mar. 26.8 3.715 0.176 9.74 9.57
118P/Shoemaker-Levy 4 1997 Jan. 12.1 2.021 0.421 8.47 6.51
119P/Parker-Hartley 1996 June 24.8 3.045 0.291 5.19 8.89
120P/Mueller 1 1996 Apr. 24.6 2.739 0.337 8.80 8.41
121P/Shoemaker-Holt 2 1996 Aug. 20.0 2.664 0.337 17.70 8.05
122P/de Vico 1995 Oct. 6.0 0.659 0.963 85.39 74.40
123P/West-Hartley 1996 May 12.8 2.133 0.448 15.35 7.59
124P/Mrkos 1996 Nov. 9.0 1.413 0.554 31.47 5.64
125P/Spacewatch 1996 July 14.5 1.540 0.509 9.97 5.56
126P/IRAS 1996 Oct. 29.9 1.703 0.697 45.96 13.30
127P/Holt-Olmstead 1997 Feb. 6.6 2.153 0.370 14.41 6.33
128P/Shoemaker-Holt 1-B 1997 Nov. 20.2 3.047 0.321 4.36 9.51
129P/Shoemaker-Levy 3 1998 Mar. 4.8 2.817 0.248 5.01 7.25
130P/McNaught-Hughes 1998 Feb. 23.7 2.116 0.404 7.30 6.69
131P/Mueller 2 1997 Nov. 22.2 2.412 0.344 7.36 7.05
132P/Helin-Roman-Alu 2 1997 Nov. 10.0 1.910 0.532 5.78 8.24
133P/Elst-Pizarro 2001 Nov. 23.7 2.635 0.166 1.39 5.60
134P/Kowal-VAprova 1998 Nov. 18.8 2.575 0.587 4.35 15.60
135P/Shoemaker-Levy 8 1999 Dec. 10.5 2.721 0.290 6.05 7.49
136P/Mueller 3 1999 Mar. 20.5 3.011 0.289 9.41 8.71
137P/Shoemaker-Levy 2 2000 Feb. 6.0 1.869 0.580 4.66 9.38
138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 1998 Aug. 24.5 1.697 0.531 10.09 6.89
139P/Vaisala-Oterma 1998 Sep. 28.8 3.382 0.248 2.33 9.54
140P/Bowell-Skiff 1999 May 14.8 1.972 0.692 3.84 16.20
141P/Machholz 2 1999 Dec. 10.0 0.749 0.751 12.81 5.22
142P/Ge-Wang 1999 June 21.5 2.496 0.500 12.17 11.20
143P/Kowal-Mrkos 2000 July 1.8 2.547 0.409 4.68 8.95
144P/Kushida 2001 June 27.7 1.431 0.629 4.12 7.58
145P/Shoemaker-Levy 5 2000 Aug. 17.1 1.989 0.529 11.77 8.69
146P/Shoemaker-LINEAR 2000 July 14.3 1.319 0.667 21.62 7.88
147P/Kushida-Muramatsu 2001 Apr. 29.5 2.752 0.277 2.36 7.44
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This table provides the nearest date of the passage at perihelion (past or future),
the distance to perihelion q, the eccentricity e, the inclination i and the orbital period P