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311P/PanSTARRS

Summary

311P/PanSTARRS is a periodic comet[1]. 311P/PanSTARRS ranks in the top 8% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 311P/PanSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[3].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's image is recorded as Asteroid P2013 P5 v2.jpg[4].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's instance of is recorded as Encke-type comet[6].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's Commons category is recorded as P/2013 P5[7].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's provisional designation is recorded as 311P/2013 P5[9].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2013-08-15T00:00:00Z[10].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0z2nc7h[11].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003273[12].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.11530'}[13].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1156926762017333'}[14].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+19.0'}[15].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.969'}[16].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.966392387174035'}[17].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1182.760698542421'}[18].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+279.2621383082477'}[19].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.188764177281745'}[20].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.441988162525956'}[21].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.935540192037535'}[22].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+144.0041487030205'}[23].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+321.4362516250485'}[24].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's BabelNet ID is recorded as 14380426n[25].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as P/2013 P5[26].
  • 311P/PanSTARRS's epoch is recorded as March 6, 2017[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

311P/PanSTARRS is credited with the discovery of Pan-STARRS[3].

Why It Matters

311P/PanSTARRS ranks in the top 8% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[2] 311P/PanSTARRS has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] 311P/PanSTARRS is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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