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253P/PANSTARRS

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q9131358

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
13.5[9]
Apoapsis
4.904358883259595[14]
Argument of periapsis
231.0057832474412[16]
Discoverer or inventor
Pan-STARRS[2]
Epoch
September 15, 2011[18]
Longitude of ascending node
146.9382014995482[12]
Mean anomaly
349.3141048699882[17]
Orbital eccentricity
0.412586722616473[8]
Orbital inclination
4.939277700698558[10]
Orbital period
2362.920506131273[11]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
2.039439758958228[15]
Provisional designation
253P/2011 R2, 253P/1998 RS22[5][6]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.471899321108912[13]
Time of discovery or invention
September 4, 2011[7]
Time of periapsis
2455889.6386686917[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en 253P/PANSTARRS pl 253P/Pan-STARRS
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/124xvy0c8
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1003147

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Pan-STARRS
Epoch 1
September 15, 2011
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

253P/PANSTARRS 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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