103P/Hartley

Summary

103P/Hartley is a periodic comet^[1]. 103P/Hartley ranks in the top 4% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 103P/Hartley is credited with the discovery of Malcolm Hartley^[3].
• 103P/Hartley's image is recorded as Comet Hartley 2.jpg^[4].
• 103P/Hartley's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 103P/Hartley's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 103P/Hartley's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[7].
• 103P/Hartley's Commons category is recorded as Comet Hartley 2^[8].
• 103P/Hartley's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 103P/Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 103P/1991 N1^[10].
• 103P/Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1991 XV^[11].
• 103P/Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 103P/1986 E2^[12].
• 103P/Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1985 V^[13].
• 103P/Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1991t^[14].
• 103P/Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1986c^[15].
• 103P/Hartley's orbit diagram is recorded as Comet103P-2010-10-20.png^[16].
• 103P/Hartley's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1986-03-15T00:00:00Z^[17].
• 103P/Hartley's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03d5btw^[18].
• 103P/Hartley's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000041^[19].
• 103P/Hartley's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6935978573940613'}^[20].
• 103P/Hartley's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Comet-Hartley-2^[21].
• 103P/Hartley's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+16.0'}^[22].
• 103P/Hartley's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.59946797122405'}^[23].
• 103P/Hartley's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2366.753060797867'}^[24].
• 103P/Hartley's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+18.1'}^[25].
• 103P/Hartley's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+219.7421743331336'}^[26].
• 103P/Hartley's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.475652487146584'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

103P/Hartley is credited with the discovery of Malcolm Hartley^[3].

Why It Matters

103P/Hartley ranks in the top 4% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month).^[2] 103P/Hartley has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]