155P/Shoemaker
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Comet Shoemaker 3, also known as 155P/Shoemaker, is a periodic comet with a 17-year-long orbit around the Sun. It is one of 32 comets discovered by American astronomers, Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 6185.219288587691
- Image
- 155P 2019-11-25 image ZTF-sso-520-zr-fov-7.0 arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Carolyn S. Shoemaker
- time of discovery or invention
- 1986-03-09
- provisional designation
- 1986a
- absolute magnitude
- 10.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.7261071562296606
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 6.594336676631461
- periapsis
- 1.80614162514164
- apoapsis
- 11.38253172812128
- orbital inclination
- 6.398094461563875
- longitude of ascending node
- 97.276219429292
- argument of periapsis
- 14.60188647209168
- mean anomaly
- 179.6099005232911
- time of periapsis
- 2452616.5927190613
- epoch
- May 21, 2011
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Comet Shoemaker 3, also known as 155P/Shoemaker, is a periodic comet with a 17-year-long orbit around the Sun. It is one of 32 comets discovered by American astronomers, Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker.
== Observational history == The comet was discovered from the Palomar Observatory on the night of 10 January 1986. The Shoemakers' discovery was confirmed by Brian A. Skiff from the Lowell Observatory two days later.
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