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205P/Giacobini

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205P/Giacobini

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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

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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

Orbital period: 2440.203586187051
Image: 205P 2021-10-25 image ZTF-sso-381-zr-size-3.5arcminc.png

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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

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