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179P/Jedicke

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179P/Jedicke

Summary

179P/Jedicke is a periodic comet[1]. 179P/Jedicke draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 179P/Jedicke is credited with the discovery of Robert Jedicke[3].
  • 179P/Jedicke's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 179P/Jedicke's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 179P/Jedicke's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 179P/Jedicke's provisional designation is recorded as 179P/2006 U2[7].
  • 179P/Jedicke's provisional designation is recorded as 179P/1995 A1[8].
  • 179P/Jedicke's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1995-01-09T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 179P/Jedicke's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000165[10].
  • 179P/Jedicke's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3072728105906607'}[11].
  • 179P/Jedicke's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+5.0'}[12].
  • 179P/Jedicke's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+19.85417596927589'}[13].
  • 179P/Jedicke's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+5282.56345595555'}[14].
  • 179P/Jedicke's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+115.6312255760319'}[15].
  • 179P/Jedicke's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.936049728308274'}[16].
  • 179P/Jedicke's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+7.760036412131484'}[17].
  • 179P/Jedicke's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.112063044485063'}[18].
  • 179P/Jedicke's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+296.2790813079611'}[19].
  • 179P/Jedicke's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+167.0642904378951'}[20].
  • 179P/Jedicke's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121xd173[21].
  • 179P/Jedicke's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet179PJedicke"][22].
  • 179P/Jedicke's epoch is recorded as August 21, 2014[23].
  • 179P/Jedicke's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2454439.0341237155'}[24].

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Works and Contributions

179P/Jedicke is credited with the discovery of Robert Jedicke[3].

Why It Matters

179P/Jedicke draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).[2] 179P/Jedicke has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

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. [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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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