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Encke’s Comet, faint comet having the shortest orbital period (about 3.3 years) of any known; it was also only the second comet (after Halley’s) to have its period established. The comet was first observed in 1786 by French astronomer Pierre Méchain. In 1819 German astronomer Johann Franz Encke.
Johann Franz Encke. During the 1700s-1800s, the Germans seemed to have a flair for producing what would be the world’s renowned set of astronomers to have ever lived. One of them is Johann Franz Encke. Born in September 1791, this man of nobility and many awards was not only a mathematician and astronomer, but once in his life, he had also ...
Johann Franz Encke1791-1865 German astronomer known for his mathematical work in astronomy, especially on short periodic comets. Following the discovery of a comet with a very short orbiting period around the Sun (3.3 years), Encke developed (in 1819) the mathematical formulae needed to calculate the orbits of this and other short periodic comets.
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Encke next took up the work and tracked the comet until January 12. Combining the observations made between December 22, and January 12, he assigned to the body a parabolic orbit.
Like Halley's comet, Encke's name came from the person who calculated its orbit, Johann Encke, and not by its discoverer. The first recorded discoverer of Encke's comet was actually Pierre Méchain in 1786 but it was not identified as a periodic comet until Encke computed its orbit in 1819.
