129P/Shoemaker–Levy
Sign in to save129P/Shoemaker–Levy, also known as Shoemaker–Levy 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a Jupiter), and is a quasi-Hilda comet.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 129P/Shoemaker-Levy
- Comet.image
- Jupiter-Family Comets Johnson and Shoemaker-Levy 3.jpg
- Comet.caption
- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 3 (bottom) by Spitzer Space Telescope
- Comet.discoverer
- Carolyn S. ShoemakerEugene Merle ShoemakerDavid H. Levy
- Comet.discovery_date
- February 7, 1991
- Comet.designations
- 1990 XXVII; 1996 U1
- Comet.epoch
- March 6, 2006
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.741 AU
- Comet.perihelion
- 2.807 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 4.676 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.2497
- Comet.period
- 7.237 a
- Comet.inclination
- 5.0108°
- Comet.last_p
- 2022-Nov-30February 11, 2014June 5, 2005
- Comet.next_p
- 2031-Nov-05
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Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 3293.427171817833
- Image
- Jupiter-Family Comets Johnson and Shoemaker-Levy 3.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker
- time of discovery or invention
- 1991-02-07
- provisional designation
- 1991e
- absolute magnitude
- 14.3
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.09698258206556558
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.332112819408893
- periapsis
- 3.911973332383282
- apoapsis
- 4.752252306434505
- orbital inclination
- 3.439154398995733
- longitude of ascending node
- 185.8726370397048
- argument of periapsis
- 307.2810697138458
- mean anomaly
- 310.6735133952096
- time of periapsis
- 2456688.7588646514
- epoch
- November 6, 2012
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129P/Shoemaker–Levy, also known as Shoemaker–Levy 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It fits the definition of an Encke-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a Jupiter), and is a quasi-Hilda comet.
This comet should not be confused with Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (D/1993 F2), which spectacularly crashed into Jupiter in 1994.
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