22P/Kopff

Author(s): John van Vliet

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22P/Kopff is a Jupiter-family comet that currently completes an orbit around the Sun once every 6.35 years. Discovered in 1906, it was originally selected as the main target of the Comet Rendezvous and Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission before it was cancelled for budgetary reasons

Artist's impression of what the nucleus of 22P/Kopff may have looked like

The orbits of 22P/Kopff from 1900 to 2200

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