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242P/Spahr

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q9131252

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
6.9[9]
Apoapsis
7.048246101890761[14]
Argument of periapsis
247.7163152386993[16]
Discoverer or inventor
Timothy B. Spahr[2]
Epoch
September 12, 2012[18]
Longitude of ascending node
180.7453543544746[12]
Mean anomaly
12.28441274605884[17]
Orbital eccentricity
0.2782186659658597[8]
Orbital inclination
32.48005380197433[10]
Orbital period
4729.467916200787[11]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
3.979986061445547[15]
Provisional designation
242P/2010 P3, 242P/1998 U4[5][6]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
5.514116081668154[13]
Time of discovery or invention
October 27, 1998[7]
Time of periapsis
2456021.114622356[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en 242P/Spahr it C/1998 U4 Spahr, P/1998 U4 Spahr, P/2010 P3 Spahr
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121s4j2n
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000236

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Timothy B. Spahr
Epoch 1
September 12, 2012
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

242P/Spahr is a periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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