Comet 22P/Kopff

Comet 22P/Kopff imaged in the infrared at 8.28 micron wavelength with the Spirit III instrument on the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) spacecraft on September 11, 1996 at 15:11:56 UT The comet was 71 days past perihelion and 1.732 AU from the sun. The infrared image shows a dust coma and trail. Image from NASA Planetary Data System MSX Small Bodies Images node.

Kraemer, K., Lisse, C.M., Price, S., Mizuno, D., Walker, R.G., Farnham,T.L., and Makinen, T., AKOPFF. MSX-C-SPIRIT3-3-MSXSB-V1.0:KOPFF_AKOPFF_FIT. NASA Planetary Data System, 2005.

Comet 22P/Kopff was discovered August 22, 1906 by August Kopff at Königstuhl Observatory, Heidelberg, Germany at magnitude 11 on plate/photo taken on the discovery date. Comet 22P/Kopff has been observed on all perihelion returns except the perihelion passage of Nov 25, 1912. Comet 22P/Kopff passes perihelion on October 25, 2015 with perihelion distance 1.558814 AU.