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168P/Hergenrother

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Comet.name: 168P/Hergenrother
Comet.image: 168p-hergenrother.jpg
Comet.caption: 168P/Hergenrother during its 2012 outburst as imaged from the Mount Lemmon Observatory
Comet.discoverer: Carl W. Hergenrother
Comet.discovery_site: Catalina Sky Survey
Comet.discovery_date: 22 November 1998
Comet.mpc_name: P/1998 W2, P/2005 N2
Comet.epoch: 25 February 2023 (JD 2460000.5)
Comet.observation_arc: 21.12 years
Comet.earliest_precovery_date: 21 November 1998
Comet.obs: 3,631
Comet.perihelion: 1.357 AU

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Comet.aphelion

5.817 AU

Comet.semimajor

3.587 AU

Comet.period

6.794 years

Comet.eccentricity

0.62169

Comet.inclination

21.615°

Comet.asc_node

355.43°

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Orbital period: 2519.930247685599
Image: 168p-hergenrother.jpg

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Commons category: 168P/Hergenrother
time of discovery or invention: 1998-11-22
provisional designation: 168P/1998 W2
absolute magnitude: 7.0
orbital eccentricity: 0.609474558944699
semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.624043443125474
periapsis: 1.415281164030147
apoapsis: 5.8328057222208
orbital inclination: 21.92937096031564
longitude of ascending node: 356.4777072417031
argument of periapsis: 13.91898353415795
mean anomaly: 308.0080958902216
time of periapsis: 2456202.433255003

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