170P/Christensen
Sign in to save170P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It came to perihelion in September 2014 at about apparent magnitude 18.
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Vinony's link graph records 5 inbound references to 170P/Christensen, and connects out to comet, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and Tempel 1.
It sits within the topics Astronomical object articles with topics of unclear notability, Astronomical objects discovered in 2005 and Discoveries by Eric J. Christensen.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 3142.897929155494
- Image
- 170P 2023-10-07 image ZTF-sso-455-zr-size-5.4arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eric J. Christensen
- time of discovery or invention
- 2005-06-17
- provisional designation
- 170P/2005 M1
- absolute magnitude
- 6.7
- epoch
- November 4, 2021
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3039139207786157
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.199084039804188
- periapsis
- 2.922923945588388
- apoapsis
- 5.475244134019987
- orbital inclination
- 10.12474007634716
- longitude of ascending node
- 142.9230148292098
- argument of periapsis
- 225.586759171419
- mean anomaly
- 298.9885652740835
- time of periapsis
- 2460055.146421819
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170P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It came to perihelion in September 2014 at about apparent magnitude 18.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “170P/Christensen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.