270P/Gehrels

Summary

270P/Gehrels is a periodic comet^[1].

Key Facts

• 270P/Gehrels is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels^[2].
• 270P/Gehrels's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[3].
• 270P/Gehrels's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[4].
• 270P/Gehrels's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[5].
• 270P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 270P/2012 S5^[6].
• 270P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 270P/1997 C1^[7].
• 270P/Gehrels's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1997-02-01T00:00:00Z^[8].
• 270P/Gehrels's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000161^[9].
• 270P/Gehrels's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4676042670610696'}^[10].
• 270P/Gehrels's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.7'}^[11].
• 270P/Gehrels's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+2.859569504455628'}^[12].
• 270P/Gehrels's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+6407.787607673282'}^[13].
• 270P/Gehrels's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+225.681439581322'}^[14].
• 270P/Gehrels's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.751596109006101'}^[15].
• 270P/Gehrels's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.90867125905027'}^[16].
• 270P/Gehrels's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.594520958961934'}^[17].
• 270P/Gehrels's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+211.4760717453448'}^[18].
• 270P/Gehrels's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+257.4954556930946'}^[19].
• 270P/Gehrels's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11cmg5nkts^[20].
• 270P/Gehrels's epoch is recorded as July 20, 2008^[21].
• 270P/Gehrels's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456492.020413167'}^[22].

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Works and Contributions

270P/Gehrels is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels^[2].