90P/Gehrels
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gehrels 1, 1972k Gehrels, 1973 I Gehrels, 1987v Gehrels, 1987 XVI Gehrels
90P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 1, is a Jupiter-family comet in the Solar System. The comet nucleus is about 7.8 km in diameter.
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- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 7.8
- Orbital period
- 5460.557027015659
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- discoverer or inventor
- Tom Gehrels
- time of discovery or invention
- 1972-10-11
- provisional designation
- 1973 I
- absolute magnitude
- 7.0
- epoch
- February 16, 2017
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.5097928579287074
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 6.068653574431163
- periapsis
- 2.974897324942635
- apoapsis
- 9.162409823919692
- orbital inclination
- 9.63537617397107
- longitude of ascending node
- 13.2518277429544
- argument of periapsis
- 29.27002672646282
- mean anomaly
- 351.8727795717881
- time of periapsis
- 2457923.7754183873
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90P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 1, is a Jupiter-family comet in the Solar System. The comet nucleus is about 7.8 km in diameter.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “90P/Gehrels” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.