121P/Shoemaker–Holt
id:
121p-shoemaker-holt-178-5185429
title:
121P/Shoemaker–Holt
text:
121P/Shoemaker–Holt, also known as Shoemaker-Holt 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of about 8 years. The comet was discovered by Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eugene M. Shoemaker, and Henry E. Holt on 9 March 1989. The comet then had an apparent magnitude of 13, was diffuse and had a tail about 2 arcminutes long. The nucleus of the comet is estimated to have a radius of 3.87 km based on infrared imaging by the Spitzer Space Telescope, when the comet displayed dust emissi
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Periodic comet with an eight-year orbit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/121P/Shoemaker%E2%80%93Holt
date created:
2006-02-10T22:00:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:18:44Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/121P_2006-08-01_Spitzer_image_Level-2-PBCD-MIPS-24um.png","width":831,"height":654}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16