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104P/Kowal

Summary

104P/Kowal is a periodic comet[1]. 104P/Kowal draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #26 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 104P/Kowal is credited with the discovery of Charles T. Kowal[3].
  • 104P/Kowal's image is recorded as 104P 2022-02-12 image ZTF-sso-506-zg-fov-9.3arcmin.png[4].
  • 104P/Kowal's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 104P/Kowal's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 104P/Kowal's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[7].
  • 104P/Kowal's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 104P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 104P/1991 X1[9].
  • 104P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 1991 XX[10].
  • 104P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 104P/1979 B1[11].
  • 104P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 1979 II[12].
  • 104P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 104P/1991f1[13].
  • 104P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 1979a[14].
  • 104P/Kowal's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1979-01-27T00:00:00Z[15].
  • 104P/Kowal's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000056[16].
  • 104P/Kowal's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6654527191420735'}[17].
  • 104P/Kowal's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.6'}[18].
  • 104P/Kowal's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+5.701090049412283'}[19].
  • 104P/Kowal's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2098.318940894791'}[20].
  • 104P/Kowal's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+207.2135256417651'}[21].
  • 104P/Kowal's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.207613623415639'}[22].
  • 104P/Kowal's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.342128831074735'}[23].
  • 104P/Kowal's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.073098415756543'}[24].
  • 104P/Kowal's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+227.2458876459766'}[25].
  • 104P/Kowal's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+342.0512077925715'}[26].
  • 104P/Kowal's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+2.0'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

104P/Kowal is credited with the discovery of Charles T. Kowal[3].

Why It Matters

104P/Kowal draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #26 of 183).[2] 104P/Kowal has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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