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258P/PANSTARRS

Summary

258P/PANSTARRS is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 258P/PANSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[2].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[5].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's provisional designation is recorded as 258P/2012 H1[6].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2012-04-27T00:00:00Z[7].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003186[8].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2103672034955429'}[9].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+16.3'}[10].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.745232993721621'}[11].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3376.585497442789'}[12].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+126.2948624306084'}[13].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.404732606682368'}[14].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.331343887295771'}[15].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.478121326068966'}[16].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+26.01432937120023'}[17].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+202.413785677859'}[18].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/112yfvn1c[19].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's epoch is recorded as June 1, 2016[20].
  • 258P/PANSTARRS's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2459018.564794103'}[21].

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Works and Contributions

258P/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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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