Comet Giacobini-Zinner (21P/Giacobini-Zinner)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5237.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5237. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Comets

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A short-period comet discovered independently in 1900 by Michel Giacobini and in 1913 by Ernst Zinner. With a period of 6.61 years it is, like the majority of short-period comets, a member of Jupiter's comet family. It reached its greatest magnitude of 7 when it made its closest approach to Earth in 1946, passing at a distance of 0.26 AU. A brief outburst raised its magnitude to 6 for a few days,...

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