Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- active asteroid
- Followed by
- 6479 Leoconnolly
- Follows
- (6477) 1988 AE5
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Orbital period
- 1278.648579265639
- Image
- Asteroid (6478) Gault (2019-22-4379).png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker
- site of astronomical discovery
- Palomar Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1995 KC1
- time of discovery or invention
- 1988-05-12
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1928797584487615
- absolute magnitude
- 14.4
- orbital inclination
- 22.81234561361043
- periapsis
- 1.860830238987956
- apoapsis
- 2.750205745035419
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.305517991697526
- mean anomaly
- 19.96336910543023
- longitude of ascending node
- 183.5265314797609
- argument of periapsis
- 83.1572853096052
- Commons category
- 6478 Gault
- rotation period
- 2.4929
- time of periapsis
- 2460129.5940791196
- epoch
- September 13, 2023
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