| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Francesco Bianchini,Giacomo Filippo Maraldi |
| Discovery date | 20 April 1702 |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch | 14 March 1702 (JD 2342774.607) |
| Observation arc | 11 days |
| Number of observations | 5 |
| Perihelion | 0.6468 AU |
| Eccentricity | ~1.000 |
| Inclination | 4.375° |
| 193.294° | |
| Argument of periapsis | 309.637° |
| Last perihelion | 14 March 1702 |
C/1702 H1, also known as the "Comet of 1702", is acomet discovered byFrancesco Bianchini andGiacomo Filippo Maraldi in Rome, then part of thePapal States, on April 20, 1702.[2]
Bianchini and Maraldi discovered the comet on April 20, 1702. The comet was a short distance above the horizon and was said to resemble a "nebulous star".
The comet was independently discovered byMaria Margaretha Kirch (Berlin,Prussia) on April 21,[3] and byPhilippe de La Hire (Paris, France) on April 24.
The last observation of the comet was made by Bianchini and Maraldi on May 5, 1702.
Very similarparabolic orbits were computed for C/1702 H1 byNicolas Louis de Lacaille (1761) andJohann Karl Burckhardt (1807).
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