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34D/Gale

Summary

34D/Gale is a periodic comet[1]. 34D/Gale draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 34D/Gale is credited with the discovery of Walter Frederick Gale[3].
  • 34D/Gale's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 34D/Gale's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 34D/Gale's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[6].
  • 34D/Gale's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 34D/Gale's provisional designation is recorded as 34D/1938 J1[8].
  • 34D/Gale's provisional designation is recorded as 1938a[9].
  • 34D/Gale's provisional designation is recorded as 34D/1927 L1[10].
  • 34D/Gale's provisional designation is recorded as 1927 VI[11].
  • 34D/Gale's provisional designation is recorded as 1938[12].
  • 34D/Gale's provisional designation is recorded as 1927f[13].
  • 34D/Gale's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1927-06-07T00:00:00Z[14].
  • 34D/Gale's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02v_yhh[15].
  • 34D/Gale's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000284[16].
  • 34D/Gale's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.760719'}[17].
  • 34D/Gale's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.5'}[18].
  • 34D/Gale's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.7281'}[19].
  • 34D/Gale's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+4017.75'}[20].
  • 34D/Gale's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+67.9235'}[21].
  • 34D/Gale's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.9435893'}[22].
  • 34D/Gale's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+8.7042717'}[23].
  • 34D/Gale's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.182907'}[24].
  • 34D/Gale's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+209.1572'}[25].
  • 34D/Gale's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+1.1223642'}[26].
  • 34D/Gale's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 34D[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

34D/Gale is credited with the discovery of Walter Frederick Gale[3].

Why It Matters

34D/Gale draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2] 34D/Gale has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] 34D/Gale is known by 3 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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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