20D/Westphal
Encyclopedia : 2 : 20 : 20D : 20D/Westphal
20D/Westphal is a periodic comet in our solar system, originally discovered by the German astronomer J. G. Westphal (Göttingen, Germany) on July 24, 1852.
It was independently discovered by the American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (Constantinople) on August 9.
The comet was last seen between September 27 and November 26, 1913, first by Pablo T. Delavan (La Plata Astronomical Observatory) and then others, it was predicted to return 1976 but was never observed, and is now considered lost.
External links
… | Previous periodic comet | | Next periodic comet | …
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.