162P/Siding Spring

Summary

162P/Siding Spring is a periodic comet^[1]. It draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 162P/Siding Spring is credited with the discovery of Franco Mallia^[3].
• 162P/Siding Spring is credited with the discovery of Gianluca Masi^[4].
• 162P/Siding Spring is credited with the discovery of Roger Wilcox^[5].
• 162P/Siding Spring's image is recorded as P2004TU12 20041112 J87.jpg^[6].
• 162P/Siding Spring's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[7].
• 162P/Siding Spring's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[8].
• 162P/Siding Spring's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[9].
• 162P/Siding Spring's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Siding Spring Observatory^[10].
• 162P/Siding Spring's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 162P/Siding Spring's provisional designation is recorded as 162P/2004 TU12^[12].
• 162P/Siding Spring's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-10-10T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 162P/Siding Spring's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dd3929^[14].
• 162P/Siding Spring's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000525^[15].
• 162P/Siding Spring's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5960778443366264'}^[16].
• 162P/Siding Spring's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.2'}^[17].
• 162P/Siding Spring's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+27.81705563403291'}^[18].
• 162P/Siding Spring's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1948.6829634643'}^[19].
• 162P/Siding Spring's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+32.853'}^[20].
• 162P/Siding Spring's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+31.23633841438725'}^[21].
• 162P/Siding Spring's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.053246310397633'}^[22].
• 162P/Siding Spring's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.873218789328212'}^[23].
• 162P/Siding Spring's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.233273831467054'}^[24].
• 162P/Siding Spring's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+356.3275145483296'}^[25].
• 162P/Siding Spring's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+49.42904982624507'}^[26].
• 162P/Siding Spring's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet162PSidingSpring"]^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Franco Mallia^[3], an astronomer^[28], b. 1961^[29], of Italy^[30]; Gianluca Masi^[4], an astrophysicist^[31], b. 1972^[32], of Italy^[33]; and Roger Wilcox^[5].

Why It Matters

162P/Siding Spring draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34]