C/2023 V5 (Leonard)

C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
Discovery
Discovered byGreg J. Leonard
Discovery date6 November 2023
Orbital characteristics
Epoch2023-Nov-07
Observation arc9 days
Number of
observations		148
Orbit typehyperbolic[1][2]
Perihelion0.846 AU[1]
Eccentricity1.008[1]
Inclination73.6°
31.52°
Argument of
periapsis		57.0°
Last perihelion13 December 2023
Earth MOID0.089 AU[1]
Jupiter MOID0.915 AU
Comet total
magnitude (M1)		21.4

C/2023 V5 (Leonard) was discovered on 6 November 2023 by the Catalina Sky Survey. It came to perihelion on 13 December 2023 at 0.849 AU (127.0 million km), from the Sun.[3][4] It is probably a Liller family comet, together with C/1988 A1 (Liller), C/1996 Q1 (Tabur), C/2015 F3 (SWAN), and C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS).[5][6]

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