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2015 ER61 PanSTARRS

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2015 ER61 PanSTARRS

Summary

2015 ER61 PanSTARRS is a minor planet[1]. It draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (minor_planet category, ranking #2 of 11).[2]

Key Facts

  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[3].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's image is recorded as Le Pleiadi e la cometa PanSTARRS C 2015ER61 crop.jpg[4].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's instance of is recorded as minor planet[5].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[6].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Pan-STARRS[7].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's minor planet group is recorded as centaur[8].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's Commons category is recorded as C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)[9].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[10].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's provisional designation is recorded as 2015 ER61[11].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's provisional designation is recorded as C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)[12].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2015-03-15T00:00:00Z[13].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003443[14].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.997278605169853'}[15].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.3'}[16].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.7'}[17].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.13'}[18].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.348648626051271'}[19].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2737128.19505027'}[20].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+238.79'}[21].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+235.2217409789212'}[22].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+382.9403597760523'}[23].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+764.8385876367555'}[24].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.042131915349179'}[25].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+64.09'}[26].
  • 2015 ER61 PanSTARRS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+68.1922585903011'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

2015 ER61 PanSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[3].

Why It Matters

2015 ER61 PanSTARRS draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (minor_planet category, ranking #2 of 11).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . 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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