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127P/Holt–Olmstead

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q4178721

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[4]
Absolute magnitude
10.5[11]
Apoapsis
4.695311839716993[16]
Argument of periapsis
6.714519217871941[18]
Discoverer or inventor
Henry E. Holt, C. Michelle Olmstead[2][3]
Epoch
August 18, 2015[20]
Longitude of ascending node
13.65118512426009[14]
Mean anomaly
327.2735731673383[19]
Orbital eccentricity
0.3607331706889843[10]
Orbital inclination
14.3020915320462[12]
Orbital period
2341.184451525201[13]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[5]
Periapsis
2.20583812980951[17]
Provisional designation
127P/1996 S1, 127P/1990 R2, 1990 XVIII[6][7][8]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.450574984763251[15]
Time of discovery or invention
September 14, 1990[9]
Time of periapsis
2457465.330416543[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en 127P/Holt-Olmstead en 127P/Holt–Olmstead ru 127P/Хольта — Ольмстеда zh 霍爾特-奧姆斯特德彗星
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
127P 2022-10-20 image ZTF-sso-654-zr-fov-3.5arcmin.png ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121c566r
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000127
NAIF ID
1000127

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Discoverer or inventor 2
Henry E. Holt, C. Michelle Olmstead
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Epoch 1
August 18, 2015
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

127P/Holt–Olmstead is a periodic comet[1].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Henry E. Holt[2], an astronomer[22], 1929–2019[23], of United States[24], specialised in astronomy[25] and C. Michelle Olmstead[3], an astronomer[26], b. 1969[27], of United States[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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