Africa Over Time
Johan Landman, Cape Town, South Africa. Copyright © All images are my own unless stated otherwise.
46P/Wirtanen is a small short-period comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years.[5][6] It was the original target for close investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space Agency, but an inability to meet the launch window caused Rosetta to be sent to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko instead.[7] It belongs to the Jupiter family of comets, all of which have aphelia between 5 and 6 AU. Its diameter is estimated at 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi). In December 2019, astronomers reported capturing an outburst of the comet in substantial detail by the TESS space telescope.[5][6]
Reference :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46P/Wirtanen
