C/2018 V4 (Africano)

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Type: Periodic Perihelion date: 1 March 2019 Perihelion distance (q): 3.2 Aphelion distance (Q) : 425 Period (years): 3,131 Eccentricity (e): 0.99 Inclination (i): 69.0 JPL orbit diagram COBS lightcurve Brian Africano discovered a comet of 20th magnitude in Mt Lemmon Survey images taken with the 1.5m reflector on 4 November 2018. It was placed on the PCCP as ZVAIB24. Observations (VEMag = visual equivalent magnitude) Date 10x10 mag Error VEmag Coma ' 01-Jan-19 20.36 0.34 20.1 0.2