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257P/Catalina

Summary

257P/Catalina is a periodic comet[1]. 257P/Catalina draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 257P/Catalina is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey[3].
  • 257P/Catalina's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 257P/Catalina's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 257P/Catalina's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 257P/Catalina's provisional designation is recorded as 257P/2012 F4[7].
  • 257P/Catalina's provisional designation is recorded as 257P/2005 JY126[8].
  • 257P/Catalina's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2003-04-26T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 257P/Catalina's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000588[10].
  • 257P/Catalina's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4323743719041483'}[11].
  • 257P/Catalina's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.1'}[12].
  • 257P/Catalina's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+20.24031529474932'}[13].
  • 257P/Catalina's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2656.176793776383'}[14].
  • 257P/Catalina's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+207.8501443047092'}[15].
  • 257P/Catalina's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.753522591667275'}[16].
  • 257P/Catalina's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.376449564667444'}[17].
  • 257P/Catalina's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.130595618667106'}[18].
  • 257P/Catalina's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+117.8839913161226'}[19].
  • 257P/Catalina's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+76.9268336716797'}[20].
  • 257P/Catalina's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11x7vlcrg[21].
  • 257P/Catalina's epoch is recorded as December 24, 2014[22].
  • 257P/Catalina's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456447.9131377293'}[23].

Body

Works and Contributions

257P/Catalina is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey[3].

Why It Matters

257P/Catalina draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 257P/Catalina. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/257p-catalina
MLA “257P/Catalina.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/257p-catalina.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_257p-catalina_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{257P/Catalina}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/257p-catalina}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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