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141P/Machholz

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q4177888

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet, near-Earth object[3][4]
Absolute magnitude
17.3[9]
Apoapsis
5.305326352340106[14]
Argument of periapsis
153.615394204163[16]
Discoverer or inventor
Donald Machholz[2]
Epoch
August 1, 2019[18]
Longitude of ascending node
241.8772401254153[12]
Mean anomaly
267.156737548041[17]
Orbital eccentricity
0.7366874952032558[8]
Orbital inclination
13.97732184065094[10]
Orbital period
1950.222072649178[11]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[5]
Periapsis
0.8043811995291372[15]
Provisional designation
141P/1999 P1[6]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.054853775934622[13]
Time of discovery or invention
August 13, 1994[7]
Time of periapsis
2459199.4582770295[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en 141P/Machholz cs 141P/Machholz 2 it 1994o, 1994 XXVI, P/1994 P1 Machholz 2, P/1999 P1 Machholz, 141P/Machholz 2, 141P/Machholz 2-A, 141P/Machholz 2-B, 141P/Machholz 2-C, 141P/Machholz 2-D, 141P/Machholz 2-E ru 141P/Макхольца zh 141P/梅克赫茲
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
141P 2021-01-10 image ZTF-sso-395-zg-size-13arcmin.png ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0dd3923
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1003394

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
near-Earth object, periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Donald Machholz
Epoch 1
August 1, 2019
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

141P/Machholz is a periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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