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172P/Yeung

Summary

172P/Yeung is a periodic comet[1]. 172P/Yeung draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 172P/Yeung is credited with the discovery of William Kwong Yu Yeung[3].
  • 172P/Yeung's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 172P/Yeung's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 172P/Yeung's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 172P/Yeung's provisional designation is recorded as 172P/2002 BV[7].
  • 172P/Yeung's provisional designation is recorded as 172P/2001 CB40[8].
  • 172P/Yeung's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2002-01-21T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 172P/Yeung's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bxj_r[10].
  • 172P/Yeung's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000388[11].
  • 172P/Yeung's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3404498150197466'}[12].
  • 172P/Yeung's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.8'}[13].
  • 172P/Yeung's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.93212176892688'}[14].
  • 172P/Yeung's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2636.071734149379'}[15].
  • 172P/Yeung's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+35.48957426505845'}[16].
  • 172P/Yeung's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.734557910705698'}[17].
  • 172P/Yeung's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.005987460585985'}[18].
  • 172P/Yeung's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.463128360825412'}[19].
  • 172P/Yeung's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+195.0730792418498'}[20].
  • 172P/Yeung's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+137.6492164658362'}[21].
  • 172P/Yeung's epoch is recorded as September 5, 2011[22].
  • 172P/Yeung's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2454801.5744201294'}[23].

Body

Works and Contributions

172P/Yeung is credited with the discovery of William Kwong Yu Yeung[3].

Why It Matters

172P/Yeung draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).[2] 172P/Yeung has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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). 172P/Yeung. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/172p-yeung
MLA “172P/Yeung.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/172p-yeung.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_172p-yeung_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{172P/Yeung}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/172p-yeung}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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