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255P/Levy

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q1094406

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet, near-Earth object[3][4]
Absolute magnitude
11.5[10]
Apoapsis
5.057050416985589[15]
Argument of periapsis
179.5929552438922[17]
Discoverer or inventor
David H. Levy[2]
Epoch
December 22, 2007[19]
Longitude of ascending node
279.7800482749129[13]
Mean anomaly
82.56119098281414[18]
Orbital eccentricity
0.6720097835717624[9]
Orbital inclination
18.33304278569389[11]
Orbital period
1921.25995359411[12]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[5]
Periapsis
0.9920175569860369[16]
Provisional designation
255P/2011 Y1, 255P/2006 T1[6][7]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.024533986985813[14]
Time of discovery or invention
October 2, 2006[8]
Time of periapsis
2454015.884694566[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en 255P/Levy it P/2006 T1
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/0gkyk11
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1002422
Minor Planet Center body ID
255P

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Instance of 3
near-Earth object, periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
David H. Levy
Epoch 1
December 22, 2007
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

255P/Levy is a periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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