Back Камэта Брорзэна BE-X-OLD Cometa 5D/Brorsen Catalan 5D/Brorsen German 5D/Μπρόρσεν Greek 5D/Brorsen Spanish 5D/Brorsen French 5D/Brorsen Croatian 5D/Բրորսեն Armenian 5D/Brorsen ID 5D/Brorsen Italian
 Coma of 5D/Brorsen, as it appeared on 14 May 1868, drawn by K. Christian Bruhns | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Theodor Brorsen |
| Discovery site | Holstein, Germany |
| Discovery date | 26 February 1846 |
| Designations | |
| P/1846 D2 P/1857 F1 | |
| 1846 III; 1857 II; 1868 I; 1873 VI; 1879 I | |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
| Epoch | 1 April 1879 (JD 2407440.5) |
| Aphelion | 5.612 AU |
| Perihelion | 0.5898 AU |
| Semi-major axis | 3.101 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.8098 |
| Orbital period | 5.461 years |
| Inclination | 29.382° |
| Last perihelion | 31 March 1879 (last observation) 17 April 2023[1] (calculated) |
| Next perihelion | 28 November 2028[1] (calculated) |
| TJupiter | 2.467 |
| Earth MOID | 0.367 AU |
| Comet total magnitude (M1) | 8.3 |
5D/Brorsen (also known as Brorsen's Comet or Comet Brorsen) was a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered on February 26, 1846, by Danish astronomer Theodor Brorsen. The comet was last seen in 1879 and is now considered lost.