138P/Shoemaker–Levy

Periodic comet December 2025 other comets of the same name Comet Shoemaker Comet Levy 138P/Shoemaker–Levy IAUC_5389 C. S. Shoemaker E. M. Shoemaker David H. Levy Palomar Observatory 13 November 1991 P/1991 V2P/1998 O1 Shoemaker–Levy 71991 XIX, 1991d1 jpldata MPC 16 December 2008 (JD 2454816.5) 33.84 years 126 1.706 AU 5.544 AU 3.625 AU 0.52941 6.91 a 10.079° 309.44° 95.558° 177.91° 2.830 0.750 AU 0.900 AU jpldata 0.8 km miLamy_2004 16.6 24 March 20262 May 2019 18 January 2033Horizons2033 138P/Shoemaker–Levy, also known as Shoemaker–Levy 7, is a faint Jupiter-family comet with a 7-year orbit around the Sun. During its 2012 perihelion,NK1768 the comet brightened to about apparent magnitude 20.5.Yoshida-2012 There were 4 recovery images of 138P on 8 August 2018 by Pan-STARRS when the comet had a magnitude of about 21.5.MPC The comet came to perihelion on 2 May 2019, and next came to perihelion on 24 March 2026.138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0138P/index.html 2025-04-13 www.aerith.net References C. S. Shoemaker E. M. Shoemaker D. H. Levy etal D. W. Green Comet Shoemaker–Levy (1991d1) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05300/05389.html IAU Circular 1991-11-18 5389 1 1991IAUC.5389....1S 138P/Shoemaker–Levy – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=138P ssd.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2025-12-06 P. L. Lamy I. Toth Y. R. Fernández H. A. Weaver Comets II The Sizes, Shapes, Albedos, and Colors of Cometary Nuclei https://physics.ucf.edu/~yfernandez/papers/comets2chapter/comets2reprint.pdf 2004 223–264 University of Arizona Press 10.2307/j.ctv1v7zdq5.22 2004come.book..223L j.ctv1v7zdq5.22 978-0-8165-2450-1 9 October 2022 6 December 2025 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://physics.ucf.edu/~yfernandez/papers/comets2chapter/comets2reprint.pdf dead 138P/Shoemaker–Levy Orbit http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=138P Minor Planet Center 2014-06-18 2009-04-22 138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 (NK 1768) OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections Syuichi Nakano Syuichi Nakano http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk/nk1768.htm 2012-02-25 2012-02-21 138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 (2012) Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog Seiichi Yoshida http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0138P/2012.html 2012-02-25 Horizons Batch for 138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7 (90001059) on 2033-Jan-18 JPL Horizons Perihelion occurs when rdot flips from negative to positive https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/api/horizons.api?format=text&COMMAND=%27DES%3D138P%3BCAP%27&START_TIME=%272033-Jan-17%2012%27&STOP_TIME=%272033-Jan-20%27&STEP_SIZE=%273%20hours%27&QUANTITIES=%2719%27 2026-04-16 (JPL#24 Soln.date: 2026-Mar-31) External links 1000137 138P 138P/Shoemaker–Levy at the Minor Planet Center database 138P/Shoemaker–Levy at Seiichi Yoshida's website 138P/Shoemaker–Levy at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 137P/Shoemaker-Levy 139P/Väisälä–Oterma Category:Periodic comets 0138 138P 138P 138P # 138P 138P 138P * *