Comet Encke /ˈɛŋki/, or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This...

Look up encke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Encke may refer to: Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865), a nineteenth-century German astronomer Encke (crater)...

closest to Encke. High-resolution Lunar Orbiter 1 image of Encke C Apollo 12 image of Encke C Apollo 12 image of Encke E Apollo 12 image of Encke X, with...

Johann Franz Encke (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈfʁants ˈɛŋkə]; 23 September 1791 – 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities,...

comet Encke. The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke, while...

Edward Keeler. Keeler had in turn discovered and named the Encke Gap in honor of Johann Encke. In 2006, four tiny "moonlets" were found in Cassini images...

shorter orbital period extreme, Encke's Comet has an orbit that does not reach the orbit of Jupiter, and is known as an Encke-type comet. Short-period comets...

Eberhard Encke (27 October 1881 – 22 October 1936) was a German sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the...

Encke (24 February 2009 – 14 October 2014) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes...

Erdmann Encke (26 January 1843 – 7 July 1896) was a German sculptor. Encke was born in Berlin. He studied at the academy in Berlin and with Albert Wolff...

wide and orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan is a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring particles....

2P may refer to: 2P/Encke, official designation of Comet Encke 2p, an arm of Chromosome 2 (human) 2p, an atomic orbital for electrons Two-photon absorption...

calculating the orbit of Comet Encke, taking into account the perturbations of various planets. He used observations of Comet Encke to try estimate the mass...

supervisor being Johann Franz Encke. From 1844 he worked at the New Berlin Observatory, whose first director was Encke. In 1885 he was awarded the Valz...

suggested in 1978 that the Tunguska event was a fragment of the periodic comet Encke. The asteroid 1849 Kresák was named in his honor. His wife Margita Kresáková...

Portrait of J. P. Morgan; Cutthroat Capitalist –Oil on canvas by Fedor Encke, 1903...

C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) C/2021 T4 (Lemmon) C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) 103P/Hartley 2P/Encke C/2023 H2 (Lemmon) 62P/Tsuchinshan 12P/Pons–Brooks brightening multiple...

supported some famous comet recoveries of the 19th century, including Encke's Comet and Crommelin's Comet. However, most of the comets he discovered...

Comet Encke's meteoroid trail is the diagonal red glow....

d'Arrest September 25, 1960 Palomar PLS EUN 4.4 km MPC · JPL 9134 Encke 4822 P-L Encke September 24, 1960 Palomar PLS KOR 4.6 km MPC · JPL 9135 Lacaille...

distinguished from them, even by very good telescopes". In 1852 Johann Franz Encke, in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, declared the traditional system...

the Spacewatch survey on 8 October 2004, it may be a fragment of Comet Encke and is the source of the Northern Taurids meteor shower seen annually in...

Comet Lemmon may refer to any comets below discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey: 349P/Lemmon P/2023 JN16 (Lemmon) 363P/Lemmon 397P/Lemmon 405P/Lemmon...

diameter. Astronomer Goran Henriksson has speculated that the comet was Comet Encke, although this is not widely accepted. Based on the ancient Greek belief...

comets are named after their discoverers, but in a few cases such as 2P/Encke and 27P/Crommelin they were named for a person who calculated their orbits...

1872, in Berlin, he met Fedor Encke (1851–1926), the "illegitimate grandson of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia." Encke was a portrait painter later...

Discovery mission to fail. The two comets scheduled to be visited were Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and the third target was d'Arrest. It was hoped...

notable among which was on the 20th of April 2007 when the ion tail of comet Encke was completely severed as the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection...

orbital resonances. This can carve gaps in the ring system, such as the Encke Gap maintained by Saturn's moon Pan, or lead to the confining of narrow...

1825 Johann Franz Encke was appointed director by King Frederick William III of Prussia. With the support of Alexander von Humboldt, Encke got the King to...