82P/Gehrels
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It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1975, Comets in 2018 and Comets in 2026.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 1.46
- Orbital period
- 3071.684568405472
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- discoverer or inventor
- Tom Gehrels
- time of discovery or invention
- 1975-10-27
- provisional designation
- 1977 VII
- absolute magnitude
- 7.6
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1232542077837754
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.13541208620034
- periapsis
- 3.625705145656267
- apoapsis
- 4.645119026744413
- orbital inclination
- 1.126554815725817
- longitude of ascending node
- 239.5914610958287
- argument of periapsis
- 227.4956617541502
- mean anomaly
- 38.99368147130111
- time of periapsis
- 2452151.7880843314
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82P/Gehrels is a periodic comet that was discovered on 27 October 1975, by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California having a faint nuclear brightness of magnitude 17.
Calculations based on the early sightings gave an estimated perihelion of 23 April 1975 and an orbital period of 8.11 years. It was observed by J. Gibson on its next predicted apparition in 1984, using the 122-cm Schmidt at Palomar, when he estimated the nuclear brightness at a very faint magnitude 20. It has since been observed in 1993, 2001 and 2010.
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