34D/Gale
Sign in to saveComet Gale is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Walter Frederick Gale (Sydney, Australia) on June 7, 1927.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 34D/Gale
- Comet.caption
- Comet Gale
- Comet.discoverer
- Walter Frederick Gale
- Comet.discovery_date
- June 7, 1927
- Comet.designations
- 1927 L1, 1938 L1
- Comet.epoch
- July 1, 1938
- Comet.aphelion
- 8.7 AU
- Comet.perihelion
- 1.18 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 4.94 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.76
- Comet.period
- 10.99 a
- Comet.inclination
- 11.72 °
- Comet.next_p
- August 2026? (Lost)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 4017.75
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- discoverer or inventor
- Walter Frederick Gale
- time of discovery or invention
- 1927-06-07
- provisional designation
- 1927f
- absolute magnitude
- 10.5
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.760719
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.9435893
- periapsis
- 1.182907
- apoapsis
- 8.7042717
- orbital inclination
- 11.7281
- longitude of ascending node
- 67.9235
- argument of periapsis
- 209.1572
- mean anomaly
- 1.1223642
- time of periapsis
- 2429067.9832
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Comet Gale is a periodic comet in the Solar System discovered by Walter Frederick Gale (Sydney, Australia) on June 7, 1927.
The second apparition was calculated for 1938, but Gale failed to find it; however, it was recalculated by Leland E. Cunningham who later recovered it for that year.
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