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162P/Siding Spring

comet
Thing Periodic Comet Q2068626

Facts

19 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet, near-Earth object[5][6]
Absolute magnitude
15.2[12]
Apoapsis
4.873218789328212[18]
Argument of periapsis
356.3275145483296[20]
Discoverer or inventor
Franco Mallia, Gianluca Masi, Roger Wilcox[2][3][4]
Epoch
December 1, 2010
Longitude of ascending node
31.23633841438725[16]
Mean anomaly
49.42904982624507[21]
Orbital eccentricity
0.5960778443366264[11]
Orbital inclination
27.81705563403291[13]
Orbital period
1948.6829634643[14]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
1.233273831467054[19]
Provisional designation
162P/2004 TU12[9]
Rotation period
32.853[15]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.053246310397633[17]
Site of astronomical discovery
Siding Spring Observatory[7]
Time of discovery or invention
October 10, 2004[10]
Time of periapsis
2455263.9401463983
🏷️ Also known as
en 162P/Siding Spring ru 162P/Сайдинг Спринг
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
P2004TU12 20041112 J87.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0dd3929
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000525
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Comet", "Comet162PSidingSpring"]

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
near-Earth object, periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 2
Gianluca Masi, Franco Mallia
Epoch 1
December 1, 2010
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Siding Spring Observatory
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Summary

162P/Siding Spring is a periodic comet[1].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Franco Mallia[2], an astronomer[22], b. 1961[23], of Italy[24]; Gianluca Masi[3], an astrophysicist[25], b. 1972[26], of Italy[27]; and Roger Wilcox[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . bisque.com. bisque.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . bisque.com. bisque.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . bisque.com. bisque.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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