331P/Gibbs
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331P/Gibbs (P/2012 F5) is a small periodic Encke-type and rare main-belt comet, discovered by American amateur astronomer Alex Gibbs.
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It is catalogued under topics including Active asteroids, Astronomical objects discovered in 2012 and Discoveries by Alex R. Gibbs.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 1902.838141530241
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-03-22
- provisional designation
- 331P/2012 F5
- absolute magnitude
- 16.6
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.04162092936179756
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.005169327070824
- periapsis
- 2.880091386788569
- apoapsis
- 3.130247267353079
- orbital inclination
- 9.738048614887637
- longitude of ascending node
- 216.8567409364987
- argument of periapsis
- 177.8652913669414
- mean anomaly
- 234.3925641940353
- time of periapsis
- 2457188.4183880873
- epoch
- August 20, 2013
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331P/Gibbs (P/2012 F5) is a small periodic Encke-type and rare main-belt comet, discovered by American amateur astronomer Alex Gibbs.
== Description == It is a rare type of comet called a main-belt comet. Although most comets come from the Oort cloud or the Kuiper belt, main-belt comets are instead members of the asteroid belt that have a coma and tail. As of 2016, it is one of only 15 known main-belt comets.
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