300P/Catalina

Summary

300P/Catalina is a periodic comet^[1]. 300P/Catalina draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 300P/Catalina is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey^[3].
• 300P/Catalina's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 300P/Catalina's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 300P/Catalina's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[6].
• 300P/Catalina's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 300P/Catalina's provisional designation is recorded as 300P/2014 G2^[8].
• 300P/Catalina's provisional designation is recorded as 300P/2005 JQ5^[9].
• 300P/Catalina's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-05-06T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 300P/Catalina's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000567^[11].
• 300P/Catalina's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6936'}^[12].
• 300P/Catalina's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6916262336252571'}^[13].
• 300P/Catalina's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+16.8'}^[14].
• 300P/Catalina's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+5.7'}^[15].
• 300P/Catalina's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+5.675931903826226'}^[16].
• 300P/Catalina's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1619.566495700938'}^[17].
• 300P/Catalina's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+95.68631700892037'}^[18].
• 300P/Catalina's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.695'}^[19].
• 300P/Catalina's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.698983552475797'}^[20].
• 300P/Catalina's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.564'}^[21].
• 300P/Catalina's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.56567138149115'}^[22].
• 300P/Catalina's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.826'}^[23].
• 300P/Catalina's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.8322957234604451'}^[24].
• 300P/Catalina's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+222.8657284472129'}^[25].
• 300P/Catalina's periapsis date is recorded as +2005-07-28T00:00:00Z^[26].
• 300P/Catalina's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+292.8616041140702'}^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

300P/Catalina is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey^[3].

Why It Matters

300P/Catalina draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2] 300P/Catalina has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] 300P/Catalina is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]