335P/Gibbs
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335P/Gibbs is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It last came to perihelion in August 2022. Together with 266P/Christensen, it was proposed as the source of the 1977 "Wow! Signal".
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, 335P/Gibbs is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to list of numbered comets, comet and C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE).
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2008, Discoveries by Alex R. Gibbs and Numbered comets.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2482.261340204667
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- provisional designation
- 335P/2008 Y2
- absolute magnitude
- 17.0
- epoch
- May 16, 2010
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5434535467404357
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.587837111089702
- periapsis
- 1.638014307941045
- apoapsis
- 5.537659914238358
- orbital inclination
- 7.275514351514871
- longitude of ascending node
- 330.8911451235497
- argument of periapsis
- 162.2991064565882
- mean anomaly
- 69.42337963790298
- time of periapsis
- 2454853.8139683846
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335P/Gibbs is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It last came to perihelion in August 2022. Together with 266P/Christensen, it was proposed as the source of the 1977 "Wow! Signal".
== References ==
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