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177P/Barnard

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177P/Barnard

Summary

177P/Barnard is a Halley-type comet[1]. 177P/Barnard draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (halley_type_comet category, ranking #4 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • 177P/Barnard is credited with the discovery of Edward Emerson Barnard[3].
  • 177P/Barnard's instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[4].
  • 177P/Barnard's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[5].
  • 177P/Barnard's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Lick Observatory[6].
  • 177P/Barnard's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 177P/Barnard's provisional designation is recorded as 177P/2006 M3[8].
  • 177P/Barnard's provisional designation is recorded as 177P/1889 M1[9].
  • 177P/Barnard's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1889-06-23T00:00:00Z[10].
  • 177P/Barnard's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1889-06-24T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 177P/Barnard's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gphbs[12].
  • 177P/Barnard's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000909[13].
  • 177P/Barnard's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.9544420406209867'}[14].
  • 177P/Barnard's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.7'}[15].
  • 177P/Barnard's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+31.21645855446403'}[16].
  • 177P/Barnard's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+43765.6107014696'}[17].
  • 177P/Barnard's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+272.0677211344989'}[18].
  • 177P/Barnard's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+24.30466899065874'}[19].
  • 177P/Barnard's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+47.50206685872069'}[20].
  • 177P/Barnard's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.107271122596795'}[21].
  • 177P/Barnard's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+60.45355083971904'}[22].
  • 177P/Barnard's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+358.9579497161313'}[23].
  • 177P/Barnard's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet177PBarnard"][24].
  • 177P/Barnard's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 177P[25].
  • 177P/Barnard's epoch is recorded as April 24, 2006[26].
  • 177P/Barnard's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2453976.18324182'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

177P/Barnard is credited with the discovery of Edward Emerson Barnard[3].

Why It Matters

177P/Barnard draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (halley_type_comet category, ranking #4 of 5).[2] 177P/Barnard has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

Edward Emerson Barnard

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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