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Comet Wirtanen was at magnitude +9.4 residing in the constellation Aries. This periodic comet has an orbital period of 5.44 years. Distance from the earth is 0.92 AU (137 630 000 km / 85 519 000 miles) History:
Discovered January 17th
1948 by Carl A Wirtanen at the
Lick Observatory, Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46P/Wirtanen
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