118P/Shoemaker–Levy
Sign in to save118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 4.8
- Orbital period
- 2248.575335185368
- Image
- 118P 2022-12-01 image ZTF-sso-465-zr-fov-7.0arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker
- time of discovery or invention
- 1991-02-09
- provisional designation
- 1991f
- absolute magnitude
- 12.3
- epoch
- July 21, 2021
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4548481538806305
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.358969113694023
- periapsis
- 1.831148213388239
- apoapsis
- 4.886790013999808
- orbital inclination
- 10.09567182694574
- longitude of ascending node
- 142.1152522737233
- argument of periapsis
- 314.4941107883377
- mean anomaly
- 281.5139391995738
- time of periapsis
- 2459906.727279088
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118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.
During the 2010 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 11.5.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “118P/Shoemaker–Levy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.