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281P/MOSS

comet
Thing Periodic Comet Q15024317

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
14.8[7]
Apoapsis
5.69860872892618 au[12]
Argument of periapsis
26.42456424019419°[14]
Discoverer or inventor
Cadi Ayyad University[2]
Epoch
August 5, 2011[16]
Longitude of ascending node
87.16962880323419°[10]
Mean anomaly
334.0804069441302°[15]
Orbital eccentricity
0.1734086059029401[6]
Orbital inclination
4.723193372181007°[8]
Orbital period
3,909.109013331541 day[9]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
4.014305766943041 au[13]
Provisional designation
281P/2013 CE31[5]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
4.85645724793461 au[11]
Time of periapsis
2,456,059.9514301014 Julian day[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en 281P/MOSS
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/12qhkykyh
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1003234

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Cadi Ayyad University
Epoch 1
August 5, 2011
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

281P/MOSS 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] ↑ . 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 . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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