123P/West–Hartley

Summary

123P/West–Hartley is a periodic comet^[1]. 123P/West–Hartley draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 123P/West–Hartley is credited with the discovery of Richard Martin West^[3].
• 123P/West–Hartley is credited with the discovery of Malcolm Hartley^[4].
• 123P/West–Hartley's image is recorded as Image of comet "West-Hartley (1989k)" Eso8905a.jpg^[5].
• 123P/West–Hartley's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[6].
• 123P/West–Hartley's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[7].
• 123P/West–Hartley's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 123P/West–Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 123P/1995 S2^[9].
• 123P/West–Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 123P/1989 E3^[10].
• 123P/West–Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1989k^[11].
• 123P/West–Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1988 XVI^[12].
• 123P/West–Hartley's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1989-05-11T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 123P/West–Hartley's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000164^[14].
• 123P/West–Hartley's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4492702213969574'}^[15].
• 123P/West–Hartley's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.2'}^[16].
• 123P/West–Hartley's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.3545455772283'}^[17].
• 123P/West–Hartley's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2770.564240888526'}^[18].
• 123P/West–Hartley's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+3.7'}^[19].
• 123P/West–Hartley's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+46.52737304496928'}^[20].
• 123P/West–Hartley's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.860526445336309'}^[21].
• 123P/West–Hartley's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.594946016141362'}^[22].
• 123P/West–Hartley's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.126106874531257'}^[23].
• 123P/West–Hartley's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+102.9184468350662'}^[24].
• 123P/West–Hartley's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+199.6130489237783'}^[25].
• 123P/West–Hartley's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12182llx^[26].
• 123P/West–Hartley's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet123PWestHartley"]^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Richard Martin West^[3], an astronomer^[28], b. 1941^[29], of Kingdom of Denmark^[30], specialised in astronomy^[31] and Malcolm Hartley^[4], an astronomer^[32], b. 1947^[33], of Australia^[34].

Why It Matters

123P/West–Hartley draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2] 123P/West–Hartley has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35]