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(138947) 2001 BA40

Summary

(138947) 2001 BA40 is an asteroid[1].

Key Facts

  • (138947) 2001 BA40 is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking[2].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's instance of is recorded as asteroid[3].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[4].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Haleakalā Observatory[5].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's follows is recorded as (138946) 2001 BA39[6].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's followed by is recorded as (138948) 2001 BR47[7].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's minor planet group is recorded as Apollo asteroid[8].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[9].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's provisional designation is recorded as 2001 BA40[10].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2001-01-23T00:00:00Z[11].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20138947[12].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.2537992882683757'}[13].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+18.82'}[14].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+12.84647743494177'}[15].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+432.2649541515029'}[16].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+270.8622727182055'}[17].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.118839352225013'}[18].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.402799983506372'}[19].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+0.8348787209436542'}[20].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.06902639826232825'}[21].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+64.34129154786409'}[22].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q828224', 'amount': '+0.447'}[23].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12z652d4c[24].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's albedo is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.292'}[25].
  • (138947) 2001 BA40's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MinorPlanet", "MinorPlanet138947Provisional2001BA40"][26].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid[3] and near-Earth object[4].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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