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259P/Garradd

comet
Thing Periodic Comet Q3887884

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Encke-type comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
13.7[8]
Apoapsis
3.658943028168442[13]
Argument of periapsis
256.5909059738796[15]
Discoverer or inventor
Gordon J. Garradd[2]
Epoch
February 26, 2011[17]
Longitude of ascending node
51.9696957134415[11]
Mean anomaly
206.9965918832171[16]
Orbital eccentricity
0.34152970302507[7]
Orbital inclination
15.89853730255651[9]
Orbital period
1645.248329498213[10]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
1.79593884275509[14]
Provisional designation
259P/2008 R1[5]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.727440935461766[12]
Time of discovery or invention
September 2, 2008[6]
Time of periapsis
2456317.746115588[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en 259P/Garradd it 259P/Garradd it P/2008 R1 Garradd pl P/2008 R1 (Garradd)
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Comet 259P Garradd - Psjabe59df2 hr.jpg ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11r80svhs
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1002991

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Discoverer or inventor 1
Gordon J. Garradd
Epoch 1
February 26, 2011
Instance of 1
periodic comet
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

259P/Garradd 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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