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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- 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 ==
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