C/2014 C3 (NEOWISE)
DEPARTED
Type: Periodic
Perihelion date: 16 January 2014
Perihelion distance (q): 1.9
Aphelion distance (Q) : 215
Period (years): 1,129
Eccentricity (e): 0.98
Inclination (i): 151.8
JPL orbit diagram
COBS lightcurve
An 18th magnitude comet was discovered by the WISE spacecraft on 14 February
2014 in its new guise of NEOWISE. The orbit is retrograde.
Observations (VEMag = visual equivalent magnitude)
Date
10x10 mag
Error
VEmag
Coma '
08-Mar-14
16.60
0.09
14.8
0.6
29-Mar-14
16.50
0.04
15.3
0.3
05-Apr-14
16.80
0.04
15.6
0.2
18-Apr-14
17.39
0.21
17.0
0.2