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181P/Shoemaker-Levy
(1991 V1)
(astronomical entity)
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Solar System (Planetary system)
..Amors (Population)
..Anderson-LINEAR (Comet)
..Apollos (Population)
..Arend (Comet)
..Arend-Rigaux (Comet)
..Ashbrook-Jackson (Comet)
..Asteroid Belt (Region)
..Atens (Population)
..Barnard (Comet)
..Barnard-Boattini (Comet)
..Bernardi (Comet)
..†Biela (Comet)
..Blanpain (Comet)
..Boethin (Comet)
..Borrelly (Comet)
..Bowell-Skiff (Comet)
..Brewington (Comet)
..Brooks (Comet)
..†Brorsen (Comet)
..Brorsen-Metcalf (Comet)
..Bus (Comet)
..Carlwirtz (Minor planet)
..Catalina (Comet)
..Catalina-LINEAR (Comet)
..Centaurs (Population)
..Ceto (Minor planet)
..Chernykh (Comet)
..Christensen (Comet)
..Christensen (Comet)
..Christensen (Comet)
..Christensen (Comet)
..Christensen (Comet)
..Christensen (Comet)
..Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet)
..Ciffreo (Comet)
..Clark (Comet)
..Comas Sola (Comet)
..Crommelin (Comet)
..Cronkite (Minor planet)
..d'Arrest (Comet)
..Daniel (Comet)
..Dariofo (Minor planet)
..David Hughes (Minor planet)
..de Vico (Comet)
..de Vico-Swift-NEAT (Comet)
..†Denning-Fujikawa (Comet)
..du Toit (Comet)
..du Toit-Hartley (Comet)
..du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte (Comet)
..Durda (Minor planet)
..Earth System (Planet-satellite system)
..Earth Trojans (Population)
..Encke (Comet)
..Faye (Comet)
..Finlay (Comet)
..Forbes (Comet)
..†Gale (Comet)
..Garradd (Comet)
..Garradd (Comet)
..Ge-Wang (Comet)
..Gehrels (Comet)
..Gehrels (Comet)
..Gehrels (Comet)
..Gehrels (Comet)
..Giacobini (Comet)
..Giacobini-Zinner (Comet)
..Gibbs (Comet)
..Gibbs (Comet)
..Gibbs (Comet)
..Giclas (Comet)
..Grigg-Skjellerup (Comet)
..Gunn (Comet)
..Hale-Bopp (Comet)
..Halley (Comet) - Halley's Comet
..Happer (Minor planet)
..Harrington (Comet)
..Harrington-Abell (Comet)
..Hartley (Comet)
..Hartley (Comet)
..Hartley (Comet)
..Hartley-IRAS (Comet)
..Helin (Comet)
..Helin-Lawrence (Comet)
..Helin-Roman-Alu (Comet)
..Helin-Roman-Alu (Comet)
..Helin-Roman-Crockett (Comet)
..Hergenrother (Comet)
..Hergenrother (Comet)
..Hermann (Comet)
..Herschel-Rigollet (Comet)
..Hill (Comet)
..Hill (Comet)
..Hill (Comet)
..Holmes (Comet)
..Holt-Olmstead (Comet)
..Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (Comet)
..Howell (Comet)
..Hug-Bell (Comet)
..Hyakutake (Comet)
..Ikeya-Zhang (Comet)
..IRAS (Comet)
..Jackson-Neujmin (Comet)
..Jager (Comet)
..Jedicke (Comet)
..Jedicke (Comet)
..Johnson (Comet)
..Jovian System (Planet-satellite system)
..Jupiter Trojans (Population)
..Karayusuf (Minor planet)
..Kearns-Kwee (Comet)
..Klemola (Comet)
..†Kohoutek (Comet)
..Kojima (Comet)
..Kondojiro (Minor planet)
..Kopff (Comet)
..Korlevic (Comet)
..Korlevic-Juric (Comet)
..Kowal (Comet)
..Kowal (Comet)
..Kowal-LINEAR (Comet)
..Kowal-Mrkos (Comet)
..Kowal-Vavrova (Comet)
..Kreutz (Minor planet)
..Kuiper Belt (Region)
..Kushida (Comet)
..Kushida-Muramatsu (Comet)
..La Sagra (Comet)
..Larsen (Comet)
..Larsen (Comet)
..Larsen (Comet)
..Larson (Comet)
..Larson (Comet)
..Levy (Comet)
..Li (Comet)
..Lick (Minor planet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR (Comet)
..LINEAR-Mueller (Comet)
..LINEAR-NEAT (Comet)
..LINEAR-NEAT (Comet)
..LINEAR-NEAT (Comet)
..LONEOS (Comet)
..LONEOS (Comet)
..LONEOS (Comet)
..LONEOS (Comet)
..LONEOS (Comet)
..Longmore (Comet)
..Lovas (Comet)
..Lovas (Comet)
..Machholz (Comet)
..Machholz (Comet)
..Martian System (Planet-satellite system)
..Martian Trojans (Population)
..Maury (Comet)
..McCleese (Minor planet)
..McMillan (Comet)
..McNaught (Comet)
..McNaught (Comet)
..McNaught (Comet)
..McNaught (Comet)
..McNaught (Comet)
..McNaught (Comet)
..McNaught-Hughes (Comet)
..McNaught-Russell (Comet)
..Mercury (Planet)
..Metcalf-Brewington (Comet)
..MOSS (Comet)
..Mrkos (Comet)
..Mueller (Comet)
..Mueller (Comet)
..Mueller (Comet)
..Mueller (Comet)
..Mueller (Comet)
..Mueller (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..NEAT (Comet)
..Neptune Trojans (Population)
..Neptunian System (Planet-satellite system)
..†Neujmin (Comet)
..Neujmin (Comet)
..Neujmin (Comet)
..ODAS (Comet)
..Olbers (Comet)
..Oort Cloud (Region)
..PANSTARRS (Comet)
..PANSTARRS (Comet)
..Parker-Hartley (Comet)
..†Perrine-Mrkos (Comet)
..Peters-Hartley (Comet)
..Petriew (Comet)
..Phorcys (Moon)
..Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski (Comet)
..Pons-Brooks (Comet)
..Pons-Gambart (Comet)
..Pons-Winnecke (Comet)
..Reinmuth (Comet)
..Reinmuth (Comet)
..Rudra (Minor planet)
..†Russell (Comet)
..Russell (Comet)
..Russell (Comet)
..Russell (Comet)
..Russell-LINEAR (Comet)
..Sanguin (Comet)
..Saturnian System (Planet-satellite system)
..Scattered disc (Region)
..Schaumasse (Comet)
..Schuster (Comet)
..Schwassmann-Wachmann (Comet)
..Schwassmann-Wachmann (Comet)
..Scotti (Comet)
..Scotti (Comet)
..Shajn-Schaldach (Comet)
..Shoemaker (Minor planet)
..Shoemaker (Comet)
..Shoemaker (Comet)
..Shoemaker (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Holt (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Holt (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
..Shoemaker-LINEAR (Comet)
..Siding Spring (Comet)
..Singer Brewster (Comet)
..Skiff (Comet)
..Slaughter-Burnham (Comet)
..Smirnova-Chernykh (Comet)
..Spacewatch (Comet)
..Spacewatch (Comet)
..Spacewatch (Comet)
..Spahr (Comet)
..Spahr (Comet)
..Spitaler (Comet)
..Stephan-Oterma (Comet)
..Sun (Star)
..Swift-Gehrels (Comet)
..Swift-Tuttle (Comet)
..Takamizawa (Comet)
..Taylor (Comet)
..Tempel (Comet)
..Tempel (Comet)
..Tempel-Swift-LINEAR (Comet)
..Tempel-Tuttle (Comet)
..Tichy (Comet)
..Tombaugh-Tenagra (Comet)
..Tritton (Comet)
..Tsuchinshan (Comet)
..Tsuchinshan (Comet)
..Tuttle (Comet)
..Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (Comet)
..Uranian System (Planet-satellite system)
..Uranus Trojans (Population)
..Urata-Niijima (Comet)
..Vaisala (Comet)
..Vaisala-Oterma (Comet)
..Van Biesbroeck (Comet)
..van Houten-Lemmon (Comet)
..Van Ness (Comet)
..Venus (Planet)
..Vorobjov (Comet)
..Voyager 1 (Observatory)
..Voyager 2 (Observatory)
..West-Hartley (Comet)
..West-Kohoutek-Ikemura (Comet)
..†Westphal (Comet)
..Whipple (Comet)
..Wild (Comet)
..Wild (Comet)
..Wild (Comet)
..Wild (Comet)
..Wirtanen (Comet)
..WISE (Comet)
..Wiseman-Skiff (Comet)
..Wolf (Comet)
..Wolf-Harrington (Comet)
..Wright (Minor planet)
..Yeung (Comet)
..Shoemaker-Levy (Comet)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
(1991 V1) 2006
Original name
:
Minor Planet Center 2006j.
M.P.C.
: 57901.
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Last updated:
28 Aug 2026