125P/Spacewatch

Summary

125P/Spacewatch is a periodic comet^[1]. 125P/Spacewatch draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 125P/Spacewatch is credited with the discovery of Spacewatch^[3].
• 125P/Spacewatch is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels^[4].
• 125P/Spacewatch's image is recorded as 125P 2024-06-03 image ZTF-sso-442-zr-size-8.5arcmin.png^[5].
• 125P/Spacewatch's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[6].
• 125P/Spacewatch's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[7].
• 125P/Spacewatch's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Kitt Peak National Observatory^[8].
• 125P/Spacewatch's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 125P/Spacewatch's provisional designation is recorded as 125P/1996 F1^[10].
• 125P/Spacewatch's provisional designation is recorded as 125P/1991 R2^[11].
• 125P/Spacewatch's provisional designation is recorded as 1991x^[12].
• 125P/Spacewatch's provisional designation is recorded as 1990 XXIX^[13].
• 125P/Spacewatch's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1991-09-08T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 125P/Spacewatch's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0vxgn5d^[15].
• 125P/Spacewatch's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000162^[16].
• 125P/Spacewatch's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5120182970216886'}^[17].
• 125P/Spacewatch's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.5'}^[18].
• 125P/Spacewatch's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.98646482268105'}^[19].
• 125P/Spacewatch's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2018.50625799929'}^[20].
• 125P/Spacewatch's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+153.1875733844616'}^[21].
• 125P/Spacewatch's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.1257515044807'}^[22].
• 125P/Spacewatch's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.726193466717888'}^[23].
• 125P/Spacewatch's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.525309542243511'}^[24].
• 125P/Spacewatch's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+87.29133593437996'}^[25].
• 125P/Spacewatch's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+200.4879723041154'}^[26].
• 125P/Spacewatch's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+1.6'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Spacewatch^[3], an astronomical survey^[28], in United States^[29], founded in 1980^[30] and Tom Gehrels^[4], an astronomer^[31], 1925–2011^[32], of Kingdom of the Netherlands^[33], awarded the Masursky Award^[34], specialised in astronomy^[35].

Why It Matters

125P/Spacewatch draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).^[2] 125P/Spacewatch has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[36]