126P/IRAS

Summary

126P/IRAS is a periodic comet^[1]. 126P/IRAS draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 126P/IRAS is credited with the discovery of IRAS^[3].
• 126P/IRAS's image is recorded as 126P 2023-07-27 image ZTF-sso-555-zr-size-11arcmin.png^[4].
• 126P/IRAS's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 126P/IRAS's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 126P/IRAS's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 126P/IRAS's provisional designation is recorded as 126P^[8].
• 126P/IRAS's provisional designation is recorded as 126P/1996 P1^[9].
• 126P/IRAS's provisional designation is recorded as 126P/1983 M1^[10].
• 126P/IRAS's provisional designation is recorded as 1983 XIV^[11].
• 126P/IRAS's provisional designation is recorded as 1983j^[12].
• 126P/IRAS's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1983-06-28T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 126P/IRAS's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000047^[14].
• 126P/IRAS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6962494044473468'}^[15].
• 126P/IRAS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.8'}^[16].
• 126P/IRAS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+45.86780465884051'}^[17].
• 126P/IRAS's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+4892.805972609668'}^[18].
• 126P/IRAS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+357.860571410013'}^[19].
• 126P/IRAS's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.640354207331589'}^[20].
• 126P/IRAS's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.567447465058294'}^[21].
• 126P/IRAS's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.713260949604883'}^[22].
• 126P/IRAS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+356.5193796187631'}^[23].
• 126P/IRAS's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+300.227947734412'}^[24].
• 126P/IRAS's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+3.2'}^[25].
• 126P/IRAS's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121n9s14^[26].
• 126P/IRAS's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000047^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

126P/IRAS is credited with the discovery of IRAS^[3].

Why It Matters

126P/IRAS draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).^[2] 126P/IRAS has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] 126P/IRAS is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]