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260P/McNaught

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260P/McNaught

Summary

260P/McNaught is a Jupiter-family comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 260P/McNaught is credited with the discovery of Robert H. McNaught[2].
  • 260P/McNaught's image is recorded as 260P 2019-10-03 image ZTF-sso-699-zr-fov-11arcmin.png[3].
  • 260P/McNaught's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • 260P/McNaught's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[5].
  • 260P/McNaught's provisional designation is recorded as 260P/2012 K2[6].
  • 260P/McNaught's provisional designation is recorded as 260P/2005 K3[7].
  • 260P/McNaught's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-05-20T00:00:00Z[8].
  • 260P/McNaught's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000584[9].
  • 260P/McNaught's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.594263830016187'}[10].
  • 260P/McNaught's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.7'}[11].
  • 260P/McNaught's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.76861437047803'}[12].
  • 260P/McNaught's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2574.258129965709'}[13].
  • 260P/McNaught's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+351.8631927316671'}[14].
  • 260P/McNaught's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.675945896881103'}[15].
  • 260P/McNaught's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.860427584493955'}[16].
  • 260P/McNaught's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.491464209268251'}[17].
  • 260P/McNaught's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.57816165602592'}[18].
  • 260P/McNaught's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+106.3521662654097'}[19].
  • 260P/McNaught's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/124xw26k6[20].
  • 260P/McNaught's epoch is recorded as October 13, 2014[21].
  • 260P/McNaught's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456183.005753755'}[22].

Body

Works and Contributions

260P/McNaught is credited with the discovery of Robert H. McNaught[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . 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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