138P/Shoemaker–Levy
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138P/Shoemaker–Levy, also known as Shoemaker–Levy 7, is a faint Jupiter-family comet with a 7-year orbit around the Sun. During its 2012 perihelion, the comet brightened to about apparent magnitude 20.5.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 138P/Shoemaker–Levy
- Comet.discovery_site
- Palomar Observatory
- Comet.discovery_date
- 13 November 1991
- Comet.mpc_name
- P/1991 V2P/1998 O1
- Comet.designations
- Shoemaker–Levy 71991 XIX, 1991d1
- Comet.epoch
- 16 December 2008 (JD 2454816.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 33.84 years
- Comet.obs
- 126
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.706 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.544 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.625 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.52941
- Comet.period
- 6.91 a
- Comet.inclination
- 10.079°
- Comet.asc_node
- 309.44°
- Comet.arg_peri
- 95.558°
- Comet.mean
- 177.91°
- Comet.tjup
- 2.830
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138P/Shoemaker–Levy, also known as Shoemaker–Levy 7, is a faint Jupiter-family comet with a 7-year orbit around the Sun. During its 2012 perihelion, the comet brightened to about apparent magnitude 20.5.
There were 4 recovery images of 138P on 8 August 2018 by Pan-STARRS when the comet had a magnitude of about 21.5. The comet came to perihelion on 2 May 2019, and the next perihelion is 24 March 2026.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “138P/Shoemaker–Levy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.