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253P/PANSTARRS

Summary

253P/PANSTARRS is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 253P/PANSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[2].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[5].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's provisional designation is recorded as 253P/2011 R2[6].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's provisional designation is recorded as 253P/1998 RS22[7].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2011-09-04T00:00:00Z[8].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003147[9].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.412586722616473'}[10].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.5'}[11].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.939277700698558'}[12].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2362.920506131273'}[13].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+146.9382014995482'}[14].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.471899321108912'}[15].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.904358883259595'}[16].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.039439758958228'}[17].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+231.0057832474412'}[18].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+349.3141048699882'}[19].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/124xvy0c8[20].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's epoch is recorded as September 15, 2011[21].
  • 253P/PANSTARRS's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2455889.6386686917'}[22].

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Works and Contributions

253P/PANSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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