Comet of 1729

C/1729 P1 (Sarabat)
Discovery
Discovered by	Fr. Nicolas Sarabat
Discovery date	August 1, 1729
Designations
Alternative designations	C/1729 P1, 1729,; Comet of 1729
Orbital characteristics
Epoch	2352731.148; (June 16, 1729)
Observation arc	135 days
Number of; observations	3 (very poorly determined)
Perihelion	4.05054 AU
Eccentricity	1.0 (assumed)
Inclination	77.095°
Last perihelion	June 16, 1729
Next perihelion	Ejection trajectory assumed
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	100 km (62 mi)

The Comet of 1729, also known as C/1729 P1 or Comet Sarabat, was an assumed parabolic comet with an absolute magnitude of −3,^[3]^[4] the brightest ever observed for a comet;^[5] it is therefore considered to be potentially the largest comet ever seen.^[6] With an assumed eccentricity of 1,^[1] it is unknown if this comet will return in a hundred thousand years or be ejected from the Solar System.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/1729 P1". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2011-07-26. last observation: 1730-01-16 (only 3 observations using a two-body model; very poorly determined)
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^ Comet Caesar (C/-43 K1) has, however, been calculated to have possibly had the brightest absolute magnitude in recorded history: −3.3 at the time of discovery and −4.0 during a later flare-up; cp. John!! T. Ramsey & A. Lewis Licht, The Comet of 44 B.C. and Caesar's Funeral Games, Atlanta, 1997, ISBN 0-7885-0273-5.
^ Moore, Patrick (1 January 2000). The Data Book of Astronomy. CRC Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-000-68723-1. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

[jpldata-1] "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/1729 P1". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2011-07-26. last observation: 1730-01-16 (only 3 observations using a two-body model; very poorly determined)

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[5] Comet Caesar (C/-43 K1) has, however, been calculated to have possibly had the brightest absolute magnitude in recorded history: −3.3 at the time of discovery and −4.0 during a later flare-up; cp. John!! T. Ramsey & A. Lewis Licht, The Comet of 44 B.C. and Caesar's Funeral Games, Atlanta, 1997, ISBN 0-7885-0273-5.

[moore232-6] Moore, Patrick (1 January 2000). The Data Book of Astronomy. CRC Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-000-68723-1. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

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