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(118228) 1996 TQ66

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(118228) 1996 TQ66

Summary

(118228) 1996 TQ66 is an asteroid[1]. (118228) 1996 TQ66 ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • (118228) 1996 TQ66 is credited with the discovery of Jun Chen[3].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66 is credited with the discovery of David Clifford Jewitt[4].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66 is credited with the discovery of Chadwick Trujillo[5].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66 is credited with the discovery of Jane Luu[6].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's instance of is recorded as asteroid[7].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's instance of is recorded as trans-Neptunian object[8].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Mauna Kea Observatories[9].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's follows is recorded as (118227) 1996 TR39[10].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's followed by is recorded as (118229) 1996 VE23[11].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's minor planet group is recorded as trans-Neptunian object[12].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[13].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's provisional designation is recorded as 1996 TQ66[14].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1996-10-08T00:00:00Z[15].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027bg19[16].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20118228[17].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.127'}[18].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1261262888465088'}[19].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.9'}[20].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+7.17'}[21].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+14.683'}[22].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+14.65976630525437'}[23].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+91342.11269098597'}[24].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.7'}[25].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.71654719139535'}[26].
  • (118228) 1996 TQ66's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+39.69310597517548'}[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid[7] and trans-Neptunian object[8].

Why It Matters

(118228) 1996 TQ66 ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2] (118228) 1996 TQ66 has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

Chadwick Trujillo David Clifford Jewitt Jane Luu Jun Chen Mauna Kea Observatories

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

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