81P/Wild
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| Orbital period | 2,339 days |
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| Radius | 2. 5 km |
| Discovered | January 6, 1978 |
| Orbits | Sun |
| Discoverer | Paul Wild |
| Did you know | On January 2, NASA's Stardust spacecraft passed within 240 kilometers of Comet Wild 2. |
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| ID | 1277316 |
About 81P/Wild
Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2, is a comet named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it on January 6, 1978, using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald, Switzerland. For most of its 4. 5 billion-year lifetime, Wild 2 probably had a more distant and circular orbit.
