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258P/PANSTARRS

comet
Thing Periodic Comet Q3598277

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
16.3[8]
Apoapsis
5.331343887295771[13]
Argument of periapsis
26.01432937120023[15]
Discoverer or inventor
Pan-STARRS[2]
Epoch
June 1, 2016[17]
Longitude of ascending node
126.2948624306084[11]
Mean anomaly
202.413785677859[16]
Orbital eccentricity
0.2103672034955429[7]
Orbital inclination
6.745232993721621[9]
Orbital period
3376.585497442789[10]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
3.478121326068966[14]
Provisional designation
258P/2012 H1[5]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
4.404732606682368[12]
Time of discovery or invention
April 27, 2012[6]
Time of periapsis
2459018.564794103[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en 258P/PANSTARRS it P/2012 H1 Pan-STARRS
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/112yfvn1c
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1003186

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Pan-STARRS
Epoch 1
June 1, 2016
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

258P/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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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