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| Description | The orbit of comet 78P/Gehrels 2. Comet 78P/Gehrels' aphelion (furthest distance fom the Sun) of 5.4AU is in the zone of control of the giant planet Jupiter and the orbit of the comet is frequently perturbed by Jupiter. On September 15, 2029, the comet will pass within 0.018AU (2.7 million kilometers) of Jupiter and be strongly perturbed. By the year 2200, the comet will have a centaur-like orbit with a perihelion (closest distance to the Sun) near Jupiter. This outward migration from a perihelion of 2AU to a perihelion of ~5AU could cause the comet to go dormant. |
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| Source | Rotated, cropped, and tweaked from JPL Small-Body Database Browser |
| Author | Orbit Viewer applet originally written and kindly provided by Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts), and further modified by Ron Baalke (JPL). Tweaks by Kevin Heider. |
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| 11 May 2009, 02:35:20 | 321 × 302 (4486 bytes) | Kheider (talk · contribs) | {{Information |Description = The orbit of comet [[:en:78P/Gehrels|78P/Gehrels 2]]. Comet 78P/Gehrels' [[:en:Apsis|aphelion]] (furthest distance fom the Sun) of 5.4[[:en:Astronomical unit|AU]] is in the zone of control of the [[:en:gas giant|giant planet] |
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| current | 19:17, 24 November 2014 | | 321 × 302 (5 KB) | GifTagger | Bot: Converting file to superior PNG file. (Source: Comet78P2029.gif). This GIF was problematic due to non-greyscale color table. |
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