26P/Grigg–Skjellerup
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Summary
26P/Grigg–Skjellerup is a Jupiter-family comet[1]. 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup draws 171 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter family comet category, ranking #3 of 8).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Jean-Louis Pons[3], Frank Skjellerup[4], John Grigg[5]
- Instance of: near-Earth object[6]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Thames[7]
- Named after: John Grigg[8], Frank Skjellerup[9]
- Follows: 25D/Neujmin[10]
- Followed by: 27P/Crommelin[11]
- Commons category: 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup[12]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[13]
- Provisional designation: 1992 XVIII[14], 1986m[15], 1982 IV[16], 1977b[17], 1972 II[18], 1966f[19], 1961g[20], 1957 I[21], 1947 II[22], 1942d[23], 1937 III[24], 1932d[25], 26P/1927 F1[26], 1927e[27]
- Time of discovery or invention: July 23, 1902[28]
- Significant event: flyby[29]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.640958[30], 0.6396679618697105[31]
- Present in work: Seveneves[32]
- Absolute magnitude: 16.5[33]
- Orbital inclination: 22.4497 degree[34], 22.45511403015216 degree[35]
- Orbital period: 5.23 years[36], 1920.965017929774 day[37]
- Longitude of ascending node: 211.534 degree[38], 211.633966473815 degree[39]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.014397 astronomical unit[40], 3.024224445052753 astronomical unit[41]
- Apoapsis: 4.946 astronomical unit[42], 4.958723932056204 astronomical unit[43]
- Periapsis: 1.08229 astronomical unit[44], 1.089724958049302 astronomical unit[45]
- Argument of periapsis: 2.20048 degree[46], 1.896085645552865 degree[47]
- Periapsis date (DEPRECATED): March 23, 2008[48], July 6, 2013[49], October 1, 2018[50]
- Mean anomaly: 1.35209 degree[51], 273.4178382900974 degree[52]
- Diameter: 2.6 km[53]
Why It Matters
26P/Grigg–Skjellerup has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]