Comets
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Miklós Lovas |
| Discovery date | December 5, 1980 |
| Designations | |
| Lovas's Comet, Comet Lovas, Lovas 1, 1980 V, 1989 XIII, 1989p, 1980s | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch | March 01 2009 |
| Number of observations | 2,244 |
| Aphelion | 7.07 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.70 AU |
| Semi-major axis | 4.39 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.61192 |
| Orbital period | 9.20 years |
| Inclination | 12.2198 |
| Last perihelion | March 1, 2017[1] 2007-Dec-17 |
| Next perihelion | 2026-May-02 (JPL Horizons last obs 2018-04-19) |
| TJupiter | 2.605 |
| Comet total magnitude (M1) | 12.8 |
| Comet nuclear magnitude (M2) | 14.6 |
93P/Lovas, also called Comet Lovas or Lovas's Comet, is a Jupiter-family comet discovered in 1980.[2]
