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16P/Brooks

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16P/Brooks

Summary

16P/Brooks is a periodic comet[1]. 16P/Brooks draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 16P/Brooks is credited with the discovery of William Robert Brooks[3].
  • 16P/Brooks's image is recorded as Le ciel 1923 (150610345) - comet Brooks.jpg[4].
  • 16P/Brooks's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 16P/Brooks's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 16P/Brooks's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85017205[7].
  • 16P/Brooks's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1994 XXIII[9].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1987m[10].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1980f[11].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1974 I[12].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1973j[13].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1960 VI[14].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1953b[15].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1946e[16].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1939g[17].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1932 VIII[18].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1925 IX[19].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1911 I[20].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1903d[21].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 16P/1896 M1[22].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1896c[23].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 16P/1889 N1[24].
  • 16P/Brooks's provisional designation is recorded as 1889d[25].
  • 16P/Brooks's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1889-07-07T00:00:00Z[26].
  • 16P/Brooks's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02x8t2[27].

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Works and Contributions

16P/Brooks is credited with the discovery of William Robert Brooks[3].

Why It Matters

16P/Brooks draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2] 16P/Brooks has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] 16P/Brooks is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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