136P/Mueller, also known as Mueller 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System.
Observational history Jean Mueller discovered the comet on exposed photographic plates taken by the Palomar Observatory on the night of 24 September 1990. At the time, it was a diffuse 18th-magnitude object in the constellation Cetus. Within a couple of days after discovery, Harold Holt found precovery images taken as early as 17 September. Orbital calculations by Edward L. G. Bowell and Daniel W. E. Green later indicated that Mueller's new find is a periodic comet.
James V. Scotti later successfully recovered the comet on 24 May 1998.
Physical characteristics Assuming a geometric albedo of 0.04, the comet's nucleus is estimated to have an effective radius of .
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at the Minor Planet Center database 136P/Mueller at Seiichi Yoshida's website 136P/Mueller at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography