118P/Shoemaker–Levy

Jupiter-family comet March 2026 other comets of the same name Comet Shoemaker Comet Levy 118P/Shoemaker–Levy 118P 2022-12-01 image ZTF-sso-465-zr-fov-7.0arcmin.png Comet Shoemaker–Levy 4 photographed from the Zwicky Transient Facility on 1 December 2022 IAUC_5185 Carolyn S. Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker David H. Levy 9 February 1991 P/1991 C2, P/1995 M1 Shoemaker–Levy 41990 XII, 1991f jpldata MPC 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5) 34.31 years 4,088 1.829 AU 4.869 AU 3.349 AU 0.45380 6.129 years 10.093° 142.05° 314.97° 175.62° 2.957 0.865 AU 0.614 AU jpldata 2.61 km miSnodgrass_2011 560 100 kg/m3Paradowski_2022 12.4 14.8 24 November 2022 11 January 2029 118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.IAUC_5185 During the 2010 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 11.5. On 3 December 2015, comet Shoemaker–Levy 4 passed 0.0442 AU e6km e6mi unit from asteroid 4 Vesta.jpldata This comet should not be confused with Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (D/1993 F2) which spectacularly crashed into Jupiter in 1994. Physical characteristics Hubble observations in 2004 estimated that the nucleus of Shoemaker–Levy 4 is estimated to be about 4.8 km mi in diameter.Lamy_2004 Follow-up observations in 2011 revealed that it is slightly larger, at 5.22 km mi in diameter.Snodgrass_2011 References C. S. Shoemaker E. M. Shoemaker D. H. Levy D. W. Green Comet Shoemaker–Levy (1991f) http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05100/05185.html IAU Circular 1991-02-11 5185 1 1991IAUC.5185....1S 118P/Shoemaker–Levy 4 – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=118P ssd.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2010-03-03 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 30 March 2026 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://physics.ucf.edu/~yfernandez/papers/comets2chapter/comets2reprint.pdf dead 118P/Shoemaker–Levy Orbit http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=118P Minor Planet Center 2023-04-29 M. L. Paradowski A New Indirect Method of Determining Density of Cometary Nuclei https://acta.astrouw.edu.pl/Vol72/n2/pdf/pap_72_2_4.pdf Acta Astronomica 2022 72 2 141–159 2022AcA....72..141P 0001-5237 10.32023/0001-5237/72.2.4 free C. Snodgrass A. Fitzsimmons S. C. Lowry P. Weissman The size distribution of Jupiter Family comet nuclei https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/414/1/458/3818082/mnras0414-0458.pdf Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2011 414 1 458–469 2011MNRAS.414..458S 1101.4228 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18406.x free 2010-01-17 Weekly Information about Bright Comets (2010 Jan. 16: North) Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog Seiichi Yoshida http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/20100116n.html 2010-03-04 External links 1000150 118P 118P/Shoemaker–Levy at the Minor Planet Center database 118P/Shoemaker–Levy on Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 118P/Shoemaker–Levy at Seiichi Yoshida's website 118P/Shoemaker–Levy at Kazuo Kinoshita's website 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu 119P/Parker–Hartley Category:Periodic comets 0118 118P Category:Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker Category:Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker 118P 118P 118P * *