205P/Giacobini

Summary

205P/Giacobini is a Jupiter-family comet^[1]. 205P/Giacobini draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter_family_comet category, ranking #7 of 8).^[2]

Key Facts

• 205P/Giacobini is credited with the discovery of Michel Giacobini^[3].
• 205P/Giacobini's image is recorded as 205P 2021-10-25 image ZTF-sso-381-zr-size-3.5arcminc.png^[4].
• 205P/Giacobini's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 205P/Giacobini's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 205P/Giacobini's provisional designation is recorded as 205P/2008 R6^[7].
• 205P/Giacobini's provisional designation is recorded as 205P/1896 R2^[8].
• 205P/Giacobini's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1896-09-04T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 205P/Giacobini's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000933^[10].
• 205P/Giacobini's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5669310590242265'}^[11].
• 205P/Giacobini's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.0'}^[12].
• 205P/Giacobini's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.28723708881279'}^[13].
• 205P/Giacobini's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2440.203586187051'}^[14].
• 205P/Giacobini's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+179.6246259836913'}^[15].
• 205P/Giacobini's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.547195211059772'}^[16].
• 205P/Giacobini's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.558210348631553'}^[17].
• 205P/Giacobini's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.536180073487991'}^[18].
• 205P/Giacobini's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+154.2565613259032'}^[19].
• 205P/Giacobini's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+293.7594262212901'}^[20].
• 205P/Giacobini's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121k2bjl^[21].
• 205P/Giacobini's epoch is recorded as February 19, 2014^[22].
• 205P/Giacobini's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2457156.5013491274'}^[23].

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Works and Contributions

205P/Giacobini is credited with the discovery of Michel Giacobini^[3].

Why It Matters

205P/Giacobini draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter_family_comet category, ranking #7 of 8).^[2] 205P/Giacobini has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24]