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168P/Hergenrother

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168P/Hergenrother

Summary

168P/Hergenrother is a periodic comet[1]. 168P/Hergenrother draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 168P/Hergenrother is credited with the discovery of Carl W. Hergenrother[3].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's image is recorded as 168p-hergenrother.jpg[4].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's Commons category is recorded as 168P/Hergenrother[7].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's provisional designation is recorded as 168P/2005 N2[9].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's provisional designation is recorded as 168P/1998 W2[10].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1998-11-22T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bwg0x[12].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000242[13].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.609474558944699'}[14].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+7.0'}[15].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+21.92937096031564'}[16].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2519.930247685599'}[17].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+356.4777072417031'}[18].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.624043443125474'}[19].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.8328057222208'}[20].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.415281164030147'}[21].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.91898353415795'}[22].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+308.0080958902216'}[23].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's epoch is recorded as October 4, 2011[24].
  • 168P/Hergenrother's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456202.433255003'}[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

168P/Hergenrother is credited with the discovery of Carl W. Hergenrother[3].

Why It Matters

168P/Hergenrother draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).[2] 168P/Hergenrother has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

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. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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.
  23. [25] ↑ . 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. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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