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37P/Forbes

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37P/Forbes
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37P/Forbes

Summary

37P/Forbes is a periodic comet[1]. 37P/Forbes draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 37P/Forbes is credited with the discovery of Alexander F. I. Forbes[3].
  • 37P/Forbes's image is recorded as 37P 2018-05-27 NEOWISE image 3-color.png[4].
  • 37P/Forbes's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 37P/Forbes's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 37P/Forbes's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1993 IV[8].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1986g[9].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1980a[10].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1974a[11].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1961 VI[12].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1948e[13].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 37P/1942 L1[14].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1942 III[15].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 37P/1929 P1[16].
  • 37P/Forbes's provisional designation is recorded as 1929 II[17].
  • 37P/Forbes's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1929-08-01T00:00:00Z[18].
  • 37P/Forbes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b3f_4[19].
  • 37P/Forbes's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000028[20].
  • 37P/Forbes's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5344761599834154'}[21].
  • 37P/Forbes's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.5'}[22].
  • 37P/Forbes's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+8.962054270441827'}[23].
  • 37P/Forbes's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2346.719430008127'}[24].
  • 37P/Forbes's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+314.6395769323095'}[25].
  • 37P/Forbes's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.456011361402862'}[26].
  • 37P/Forbes's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.30316704270452'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

37P/Forbes is credited with the discovery of Alexander F. I. Forbes[3].

Why It Matters

37P/Forbes draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).[2] 37P/Forbes has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 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.

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