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90P/Gehrels

90P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 1, is a Jupiter-family comet in the Solar System with a 14.9 year orbital period. The comet nucleus is about 7.8 km in diameter. It last came to perihelion in 2017 and will next come to perihelion in 2032.

References

External links 90P/Gehrels at the JPL Small-Body Database 90P/Gehrels 1 at Seiichi Yoshida's website 90P/Gehrels at Gideon van Buitenen's website

Tags

  • Astronomical objects discovered in 1972
  • Comet stubs
  • Comets in 2017
  • Discoveries by Tom Gehrels
  • Jupiter-family comets
  • Numbered comets
  • Periodic comets