118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.
During the 2010 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 11.5.
On 3 December 2015, comet Shoemaker–Levy 4 passed from asteroid 4 Vesta.
This comet should not be confused with Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (D/1993 F2) which spectacularly crashed into Jupiter in 1994.
Physical characteristics Hubble observations in 2004 estimated that the nucleus of Shoemaker–Levy 4 is estimated to be about in diameter. Follow-up observations in 2011 revealed that it is slightly larger, at in diameter.
References
External links
at the Minor Planet Center database 118P/Shoemaker–Levy on Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 118P/Shoemaker–Levy at Seiichi Yoshida's website 118P/Shoemaker–Levy at Kazuo Kinoshita's website