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170P/Christensen

Summary

170P/Christensen is a periodic comet[1]. 170P/Christensen draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 170P/Christensen is credited with the discovery of Eric J. Christensen[3].
  • 170P/Christensen's image is recorded as 170P 2023-10-07 image ZTF-sso-455-zr-size-5.4arcmin.png[4].
  • 170P/Christensen's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 170P/Christensen's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 170P/Christensen's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 170P/Christensen's provisional designation is recorded as 170P/2005 M1[8].
  • 170P/Christensen's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-06-17T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 170P/Christensen's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bwg8k[10].
  • 170P/Christensen's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1001649[11].
  • 170P/Christensen's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3039139207786157'}[12].
  • 170P/Christensen's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.7'}[13].
  • 170P/Christensen's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.12474007634716'}[14].
  • 170P/Christensen's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3142.897929155494'}[15].
  • 170P/Christensen's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+142.9230148292098'}[16].
  • 170P/Christensen's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.199084039804188'}[17].
  • 170P/Christensen's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.475244134019987'}[18].
  • 170P/Christensen's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.922923945588388'}[19].
  • 170P/Christensen's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+225.586759171419'}[20].
  • 170P/Christensen's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+298.9885652740835'}[21].
  • 170P/Christensen's epoch is recorded as November 4, 2021[22].
  • 170P/Christensen's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2460055.146421819'}[23].

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Works and Contributions

170P/Christensen is credited with the discovery of Eric J. Christensen[3].

Why It Matters

170P/Christensen draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2] 170P/Christensen has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

References

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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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 170P/Christensen. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/170p-christensen
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_170p-christensen_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{170P/Christensen}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/170p-christensen}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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