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13P/Olbers

Summary

13P/Olbers is a periodic comet[1]. 13P/Olbers ranks in the top 9% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 13P/Olbers is credited with the discovery of Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers[3].
  • 13P/Olbers's image is recorded as Comet 13P Olbers by William R. Brooks.jpg[4].
  • 13P/Olbers's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 13P/Olbers's instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[6].
  • 13P/Olbers's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[7].
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers is named after 13P/Olbers[8].
  • 13P/Olbers's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85094503[9].
  • 13P/Olbers's Commons category is recorded as 13P/Olbers[10].
  • 13P/Olbers's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[11].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 13P/1956 A1[12].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 1956 IV[13].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 13P/1887 Q1[14].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 1887 V[15].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 13P/1815 E1[16].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 1815[17].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 1956a[18].
  • 13P/Olbers's provisional designation is recorded as 1887f[19].
  • 13P/Olbers's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1815-03-06T00:00:00Z[20].
  • 13P/Olbers's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dn4kh[21].
  • 13P/Olbers's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000066[22].
  • 13P/Olbers's significant event is recorded as perihelion[23].
  • 13P/Olbers's significant event is recorded as perihelion[24].
  • 13P/Olbers's significant event is recorded as perihelion[25].
  • 13P/Olbers's significant event is recorded as perihelion[26].
  • 13P/Olbers's significant event is recorded as perihelion[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

13P/Olbers is credited with the discovery of Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers[3].

Why It Matters

13P/Olbers ranks in the top 9% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2] 13P/Olbers has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] 13P/Olbers is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . A Short History of Astronomy. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . A Short History of Astronomy. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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