78P/Gehrels

Summary

78P/Gehrels is a periodic comet^[1]. 78P/Gehrels draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 78P/Gehrels is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels^[3].
• 78P/Gehrels's image is recorded as 78P 2019-01-27 image ZTF-sso-446-zr-fov-5.6arcmin.png^[4].
• 78P/Gehrels's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 78P/Gehrels's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 78P/Gehrels's location of discovery is recorded as Lunar and Planetary Laboratory^[7].
• 78P/Gehrels's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 78P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 1989 XVII^[9].
• 78P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 78P/1981 L1^[10].
• 78P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 1981f^[11].
• 78P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 78P/1973 S1^[12].
• 78P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 1973n^[13].
• 78P/Gehrels's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1973-09-29T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 78P/Gehrels's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b7sj7^[15].
• 78P/Gehrels's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000030^[16].
• 78P/Gehrels's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.461637372748463'}^[17].
• 78P/Gehrels's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.0'}^[18].
• 78P/Gehrels's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.252696505134401'}^[19].
• 78P/Gehrels's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2638.019263116993'}^[20].
• 78P/Gehrels's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+210.5626757533421'}^[21].
• 78P/Gehrels's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.73639707776845'}^[22].
• 78P/Gehrels's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.461257608294511'}^[23].
• 78P/Gehrels's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.011536547242388'}^[24].
• 78P/Gehrels's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+192.7558599464267'}^[25].
• 78P/Gehrels's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+143.1385388526563'}^[26].
• 78P/Gehrels's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000030^[27].

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Works and Contributions

78P/Gehrels is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels^[3].

Why It Matters

78P/Gehrels draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2] 78P/Gehrels has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]