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208P/McMillan

Summary

208P/McMillan is a periodic comet[1]. 208P/McMillan has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • 208P/McMillan is credited with the discovery of Robert S. McMillan[3].
  • 208P/McMillan's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 208P/McMillan's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 208P/McMillan's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 208P/McMillan's provisional designation is recorded as 208P/2008 U1[7].
  • 208P/McMillan's provisional designation is recorded as 208P/2000 S7[8].
  • 208P/McMillan's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2008-10-19T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 208P/McMillan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0zdmv9q[10].
  • 208P/McMillan's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003003[11].
  • 208P/McMillan's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3742089923153665'}[12].
  • 208P/McMillan's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+16.0'}[13].
  • 208P/McMillan's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.414014189809259'}[14].
  • 208P/McMillan's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2967.71506922162'}[15].
  • 208P/McMillan's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+36.3959948265835'}[16].
  • 208P/McMillan's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.041561421606209'}[17].
  • 208P/McMillan's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.553950048566128'}[18].
  • 208P/McMillan's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.52917279464629'}[19].
  • 208P/McMillan's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+310.6905600748934'}[20].
  • 208P/McMillan's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+118.8041783801016'}[21].
  • 208P/McMillan's epoch is recorded as January 18, 2011[22].
  • 208P/McMillan's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2454600.119582041'}[23].

Body

Works and Contributions

208P/McMillan is credited with the discovery of Robert S. McMillan[3].

Why It Matters

208P/McMillan has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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