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278P/McNaught

Summary

278P/McNaught is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 278P/McNaught is credited with the discovery of Robert H. McNaught[2].
  • 278P/McNaught's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • 278P/McNaught's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • 278P/McNaught's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[5].
  • 278P/McNaught's provisional designation is recorded as 278P/2013 B1[6].
  • 278P/McNaught's provisional designation is recorded as 278P/2006 K2[7].
  • 278P/McNaught's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1002397[8].
  • 278P/McNaught's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.4334379768440068'}[9].
  • 278P/McNaught's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+12.6'}[10].
  • 278P/McNaught's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+6.683670581267809'}[11].
  • 278P/McNaught's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+2599.166289876054'}[12].
  • 278P/McNaught's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+15.49257302170132'}[13].
  • 278P/McNaught's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.699619778756547'}[14].
  • 278P/McNaught's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+5.303175490752857'}[15].
  • 278P/McNaught's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.096064066760237'}[16].
  • 278P/McNaught's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+237.9227503331136'}[17].
  • 278P/McNaught's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+93.43115572281472'}[18].
  • 278P/McNaught's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11cmg58qlg[19].
  • 278P/McNaught's epoch is recorded as June 8, 2015[20].
  • 278P/McNaught's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2456506.935804503'}[21].

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Works and Contributions

278P/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] ↑ . 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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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 278P/McNaught. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/278p-mcnaught
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