26P/Grigg–Skjellerup
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| Orbital period | 1,938 days |
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| Discovered | July 23, 1902 |
| Semimajor axis | 3. 04 m |
| Next perihelion | December 25, 2023 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0. 6631 |
| Discoverers | John Francis Skjellerup |
| John Grigg | |
| Date of Reg. | |
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| ID | 2199002 |
About 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup
Comet Grigg–Skjellerup is a periodic comet. It was visited by the Giotto probe in July 1992. The spacecraft came as close as 200 km, but could not take pictures because some instruments were damaged from its encounter with Halley's Comet.
