102P/Shoemaker
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102P/Shoemaker, also known as Shoemaker 1, is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.47-year orbit around the Sun. It was first seen in 1984, and then again in 1991. Images taken of it in 1999 were not recognized until 2006 when it was once again observed. It was unexpectedly dim in each of these returns.
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- Diameter
- 3.2
- Orbital period
- 2638.261192727151
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1984-09-27
- provisional designation
- 1984 XVI
- absolute magnitude
- 16.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4731654920192473
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.736625514632678
- periapsis
- 1.968583264509834
- apoapsis
- 5.504667764755523
- orbital inclination
- 26.2449062377407
- longitude of ascending node
- 339.8733382485834
- argument of periapsis
- 18.74460239787177
- mean anomaly
- 297.4830036280064
- time of periapsis
- 2456536.656015039
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102P/Shoemaker, also known as Shoemaker 1, is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.47-year orbit around the Sun. It was first seen in 1984, and then again in 1991. Images taken of it in 1999 were not recognized until 2006 when it was once again observed. It was unexpectedly dim in each of these returns.
== References ==
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