Johann Franz Encke
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Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and made observa
Johann Franz Encke
Comet Encke
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Comet Encke, or Encke's Comet, is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. Encke was first recorded by Pierre Méchain on 17 January 1786, but it was not recognized as
Johann Franz Encke
…mathematics professor published this note and Encke became famous as the discoverer of the short periodic comets. The first object of this family, the Encke comet, was named after him and so it is one of the few comets not named after the discoverer, but after the one who calculated the orbit. Later this comet…
Comet Encke photographed from the Kitt Peak Observatory on 5 January 1994.
Artist's impression of the CONTOUR spacecraft making a flyby of a comet.
A Spitzer image of Encke and its debris trail in infrared light
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