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116P/Wild

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q4175980

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Encke-type comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
7.6[11]
Apoapsis
4.781294947632811[16]
Argument of periapsis
173.3109233954221[18]
Discoverer or inventor
Paul Wild[2]
Epoch
April 11, 2016[20]
Longitude of ascending node
20.99189725864992[14]
Mean anomaly
13.71104422684043[19]
Orbital eccentricity
0.3722828736001055[10]
Orbital inclination
3.607849159431975[12]
Orbital period
2375.479378940594[13]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
2.187086046716201[17]
Provisional designation
116P/1994 V1, 1994v, 116P/1990 B1, 1990 X[5][6][7][8]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.484190497174506[15]
Time of discovery or invention
January 21, 1990[9]
Time of periapsis
2457399.026936598[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en 116P/Wild cs 116P/Wild 4 ja ヴィルト第4彗星 ru 116P/Вильда
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
116P 2022-02-26 image ZTF-sso-570-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0bd6w3
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000122
NAIF ID
1000122

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🔗 Connections
Discoverer or inventor 1
Paul Wild
Epoch 1
April 11, 2016
Instance of 1
periodic comet
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

116P/Wild is a periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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 . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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