38P/Stephan–Oterma

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38P/Stephan–Oterma
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38P/Stephan–Oterma

Summary

38P/Stephan–Oterma is a periodic comet[1]. 38P/Stephan–Oterma draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma is credited with the discovery of Jérôme Eugène Coggia[3].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's image is recorded as 38P 2018-12-20 image ZTF-sso-664-zr-size-600.0arcsec.png[4].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[6].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's Commons category is recorded as 38P/Stephan–Oterma[7].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 38P/1980 L2[9].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 1980g[10].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 38P/1942 V1[11].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 1942 IX[12].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 38P/1867 B1[13].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 1867 I[14].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1867-01-22T00:00:00Z[15].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05ztrpm[16].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000089[17].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.859286285876197'}[18].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.5'}[19].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+18.3529465228447'}[20].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+13854.04794702775'}[21].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+78.00036419278668'}[22].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+11.28891421895193'}[23].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+20.98932338973012'}[24].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.588505048173736'}[25].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+359.5886765534911'}[26].
  • 38P/Stephan–Oterma's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+355.5568622320152'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

38P/Stephan–Oterma is credited with the discovery of Jérôme Eugène Coggia[3].

Why It Matters

38P/Stephan–Oterma draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).[2] 38P/Stephan–Oterma has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] 38P/Stephan–Oterma is known by 4 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] . 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] . 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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] . 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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