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141P/Machholz

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141P/Machholz

Summary

141P/Machholz is a periodic comet[1]. 141P/Machholz draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #22 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 141P/Machholz is credited with the discovery of Donald Machholz[3].
  • 141P/Machholz's image is recorded as 141P 2021-01-10 image ZTF-sso-395-zg-size-13arcmin.png[4].
  • 141P/Machholz's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 141P/Machholz's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 141P/Machholz's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[7].
  • 141P/Machholz's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 141P/Machholz's provisional designation is recorded as 141P/1999 P1[9].
  • 141P/Machholz's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1994-08-13T00:00:00Z[10].
  • 141P/Machholz's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dd3923[11].
  • 141P/Machholz's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003394[12].
  • 141P/Machholz's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.7366874952032558'}[13].
  • 141P/Machholz's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+17.3'}[14].
  • 141P/Machholz's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.97732184065094'}[15].
  • 141P/Machholz's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1950.222072649178'}[16].
  • 141P/Machholz's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+241.8772401254153'}[17].
  • 141P/Machholz's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.054853775934622'}[18].
  • 141P/Machholz's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.305326352340106'}[19].
  • 141P/Machholz's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.8043811995291372'}[20].
  • 141P/Machholz's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+153.615394204163'}[21].
  • 141P/Machholz's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+267.156737548041'}[22].
  • 141P/Machholz's epoch is recorded as August 1, 2019[23].
  • 141P/Machholz's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2459199.4582770295'}[24].

Body

Works and Contributions

141P/Machholz is credited with the discovery of Donald Machholz[3].

Why It Matters

141P/Machholz draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #22 of 183).[2] 141P/Machholz has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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