205P/Giacobini
Sign in to save205P/Giacobini is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 6.68 years. It was discovered by Michel Giacobini on 4 September 1896 and then it was lost until it was recovered by Koichi Itagaki on 10 September 2008. The comet was then found to have fragmented into three pieces.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 205P/Giacobini
- Comet.image
- 205P 2021-10-25 image ZTF-sso-381-zr-size-3.5arcminc.png
- Comet.caption
- Comet 205P/Giacobini photographed from the Zwicky Transient Facility on 25 October 2021
- Comet.discoverer
- Michel Giacobini
- Comet.discovery_site
- Nice, France
- Comet.discovery_date
- 4 September 1896
- Comet.mpc_name
- D/1896 R2, P/2008 R6
- Comet.designations
- 1896 V, 1896d
- Comet.epoch
- 19 February 2014 (JD 2456707.5)
- Comet.observation_arc
- 112.05 years
- Comet.obs
- 1,143
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.536 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.558 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.547 AU
- Comet.period
- 6.681 years
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.5669
- Comet.inclination
- 15.287°
- Comet.asc_node
- 179.625°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2440.203586187051
- Image
- 205P 2021-10-25 image ZTF-sso-381-zr-size-3.5arcminc.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Michel Giacobini
- time of discovery or invention
- 1896-09-04
- provisional designation
- 205P/1896 R2
- absolute magnitude
- 14.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5669310590242265
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.547195211059772
- periapsis
- 1.536180073487991
- apoapsis
- 5.558210348631553
- orbital inclination
- 15.28723708881279
- longitude of ascending node
- 179.6246259836913
- argument of periapsis
- 154.2565613259032
- mean anomaly
- 293.7594262212901
- time of periapsis
- 2457156.5013491274
- epoch
- February 19, 2014
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205P/Giacobini is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 6.68 years. It was discovered by Michel Giacobini on 4 September 1896 and then it was lost until it was recovered by Koichi Itagaki on 10 September 2008. The comet was then found to have fragmented into three pieces.
== Observational history == The comet was discovered by Michel Giacobini on 4 September 1896. He described the comet as faint and with a coma about one arcminute across. Other observers confirmed the presence of the comet the next day, and estimated it to have an apparent magnitude of 11.3. The comet was then located in Serpens. The comet subsequently grew fainter and it was last observed on 5 January 1897 by William Hussey. The first elliptical orbit was calculated by Perrotin and Giacobini and indicated an orbital period of 6.65 years and perihelion date on October 28.80.
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