181P/Shoemaker–Levy
Sign in to saveAlso known as 181P/Shoemaker-Levy, Shoemaker–Levy 6, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 6, Shoemaker-Levy 6, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6
REDIRECT List of numbered comets#181P
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2747.44313771198
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker
- time of discovery or invention
- 1991-10-13
- provisional designation
- 181P/1991b1
- absolute magnitude
- 16.3
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.7073228278805144
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.839018373459053
- periapsis
- 1.123593041258743
- apoapsis
- 6.554443705659363
- orbital inclination
- 16.98117916666919
- longitude of ascending node
- 37.6794577153227
- argument of periapsis
- 333.7988485602352
- mean anomaly
- 11.75008853224812
- time of periapsis
- 2456818.8258330403
- epoch
- September 8, 2014
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REDIRECT List of numbered comets#181P
Category:Jupiter-family comets Category:Near-Earth comets 0181 Category:Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker Category:Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker Category:Discoveries by David H. Levy
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