C/1969 O1-A (Kohoutek)
ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIHELION 1.72 AU · ECCENTRICITY 0.999
CATALOG DATA
] 9 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
THE ORBIT
The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.
- Eccentricity
- Inclination
- 86.31
- Longitude of ascending node
- 301.76
- Argument of perihelion
- 123.47
- Mean anomaly
- 0
- Element epoch
- 2440680.5000
- Perihelion passage
- 2440667.1400
- Orbit class
- COM
WHEN IT WAS FOUND
Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.
- First observed
- 1969-07-23
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 2 DESIGNATIONS- Comet 1969 O1-A
- Comet C/1969 O1-A (Kohoutek)
CITE THIS PAGE
] DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. C/1969 O1-A (Kohoutek) [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/c-1969-o1-a-kohoutek
@misc{spacecatalog_c-1969-o1-a-kohoutek,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{C/1969 O1-A (Kohoutek)}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/c-1969-o1-a-kohoutek},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.