289P/Blanpain

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289P/Blanpain, formerly D/1819 W1 (Blanpain) is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 5.2 years. It was discovered by Jean-Jacques Blanpain on 28 November 1819, but was considered lost until it was recovered in 2013. It was last observed in 2024.

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Image: Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), which is a joint project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona. NEOWISE is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.