105P/Singer Brewster is a periodic comet in our solar system. It was discovered in 1986, and received the name of 1986d under the old naming system.
Since 105P/Singer Brewster only comes within 2 AU of the Sun, during the 2012 perihelion passage it is only expected to brighten to about apparent magnitude 17.
The comet nucleus is estimated to be 2.2 kilometers in diameter.
The orbit was altered significantly in August 1976 when it passed within 0.376 AU of Jupiter and will be altered again in August 2059.
The single discoverer bears a hyphenated surname (Singer-Brewster), but co-discovered comets bear the names of the co-discoverers linked by hyphens (e.g. Shoemaker-Levy 9, Swift-Tuttle, etc.). In these cases, the IAU either removes one of the parts of the name or replaces the hyphen by a space.
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“The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)