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Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hyperbolic comet For other comets of the same name, see List of comets discovered by the LINEAR project. C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)

C/2002 T7 on 27 April 2004 by the Advanced Observing Program of the Kitt Peak Visitor Center
Discovery[1]
Discovered by	LINEAR
Discovery date	14 October 2002
Designations
Alternative designations	CK02T070[2]
Orbital characteristics[3]
Epoch	16 November 2003 (JD 2452959.5)
Observation arc	1,242 days
Earliest precovery date	12 October 2002
Number ofobservations	4,397
Perihelion	0.614 AU
Eccentricity	1.000487
Inclination	160.58°
Longitude ofascending node	94.86°
Argument ofperiapsis	157.74°
Last perihelion	23 April 2004
Earth MOID	0.2554 AU
Jupiter MOID	0.5801 AU
Physical characteristics[3][4][5]
Dimensions	4.4–8.4 km (2.7–5.2 mi)
Mean diameter	6.4 km (4.0 mi)
Comet totalmagnitude (M1)	7.6
Apparent magnitude	2.2(2004 apparition)

C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) is a hyperbolic comet discovered in 2002 by the LINEAR project. The comet brightened to a magnitude of 2.2 in 2004.[5]

Discovery and observations

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The LINEAR project announced the discovery of this object on 14 October 2002. At that time, comet had a magnitude of 17.5. Before the end of the month, several observatories obtained follow-up observations. On October 29, the International Astronomical Union announced this object to be a comet.[1] Prediscovery observations were found on LINEAR images from October 12.[6] At the time of discovery the comet was 6.9 AU from the Sun.[7] The comet is considered to be dynamically new object from the Oort Cloud and that was the first time it came closer to Sun than Jupiter.[7]

The comet brightened until mid February 2004, when the comet stayed to a magnitude of 7 until early March, when it entered the twilight and it couldn't be easily observed. It passed from a minimum solar elongation of 9° in late March. The comet was observed again on April 9 in twilight, when it had a magnitude of 4.6. The comet passed its perihelion on April 23 but it continued to brighten as it was approaching Earth. The closest approach was on 19 May 2004, when the comet had an estimated magnitude of 2.5 to 3.[6] The comet was visible in the sky along with the equally bright comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT).[5]

On 30 April 2004, the comet was imaged and studied using the remote-sensing devices on the Rosetta spacecraft. The coma and tail were measured in wavelengths ranging from the ultraviolet to microwave. This occurred from a distance of about 95 million kilometres. The presence of water molecules around the comet was successfully identified.[8]

See also

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• List of comets discovered by the LINEAR project

References

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1. ^ a b D. W. Green (29 October 2002). "Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)". Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. 8003.
2. ^ B. G. Marsden (29 October 2002). "MPEC 2002-U43: COMET C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)". Minor Planet Electronic Circular. Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
3. ^ a b "C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
4. ^ D. C. Jewitt (2022). "Destruction of Long-period Comets". Astronomical Journal. 164 (4): 158–166. arXiv:2208.04469. Bibcode:2022AJ....164..158J. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac886d.
5. ^ a b c "Brightest comets seen since 1935". International Comet Quarterly. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
6. ^ a b G. W. Kronk. "C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)". Cometography.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
7. ^ a b M. Królikowska; P. A. Dybczyński; G. Sitarski (2012). "Different dynamical histories for comets C/2001 Q4 and C/2002 T7?" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 544: A119. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219408.
8. ^ "Rosetta's Scientific First - Observation of Comet LINEAR". European Space Agency. 26 May 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

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