Cosmic Atlas object record

Shoemaker-Levy

Shoemaker-Levy, 138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7, 138P, JPL SPK-ID 1000137, SPK 1000137

Shoemaker-Levy
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Object type
comet
Constellation
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Right ascension
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Declination
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Reference frame
Heliocentric ecliptic state derived from JPL SBDB osculating elements
Distance
Not supplied by the source catalog
Distance kind
ephemeris_state
Uncertainty
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Apparent magnitude
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Catalog source
jpl_sbdb_query
Catalog epoch
Per-record element epoch
Position epoch
Selected atlas time
Selection caveat
Two-body propagation is contextual and is not an orbit-determination or mission-planning product.
Cosmology
Not supplied by the source catalog

Provenance

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