335P/Gibbs | |
Discoverer: | Alex R. Gibbs |
Discovery Date: | 31 December 2008 |
Designations: | 2008 Y2, 2016 A9 |
Epoch: | 2022-08-09.0 |
Semimajor: | 3.578 AU |
Perihelion: | 1.624 AU |
Aphelion: | 5.532 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.546 |
Period: | 6.77 a |
Inclination: | 7.293° |
Last P: | 2015-11-05 |
Next P: | 2022-08-12 |
335P/Gibbs is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It last came to perihelion in August 2022. Together with 266P/Christensen, it was proposed as the source of the 1977 "Wow! Signal".[1]