25D/Neujmin, otherwise known as Comet Neujmin 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Grigory N. Neujmin (Simeis) on February 24, 1916. It was last observed on February 10, 1927, and has not been observed in years.
It was confirmed by George Van Biesbroeck (Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, United States) and Frank Watson Dyson (Greenwich Observatory, England) on March 1.
A prediction by Andrew Crommelin (Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England) for 1921 was considered unfavourable and no observations were made. The comet was recovered in 1926. Searches in 1932 and 1937 were unsuccessful.
Consequently, this comet has remained a lost comet since 1927. and using the JPL Horizons nominal orbit, the comet is still expected to come to perihelion around from the Sun.
The comet has not been observed during the last 18 perihelion passages: 1932, 1937, 1943, 1948, 1954, 1959, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2014, 2019, and 2025.
References
External links
at the Minor Planet Center database 25D/Neujmin at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 25D/Neujmin at Kazuo Kinoshita's website 25D/Neujmin at Seiichi Yoshida's website