40P/Väisälä

Summary

40P/Väisälä is a periodic comet^[1]. 40P/Väisälä draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 40P/Väisälä is credited with the discovery of Yrjö Väisälä^[3].
• 40P/Väisälä's image is recorded as 40P 2026-01-20 image ZTF-sso-1371-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png^[4].
• 40P/Väisälä's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 40P/Väisälä's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• Yrjö Väisälä is named after 40P/Väisälä^[7].
• 40P/Väisälä's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 1992u^[9].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 1982 V^[10].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 1971 VII^[11].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 1959i^[12].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 40P/1949 Y1^[13].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 1949 V^[14].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 40P/1939 CB^[15].
• 40P/Väisälä's provisional designation is recorded as 1939 IV^[16].
• 40P/Väisälä's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1939-02-08T00:00:00Z^[17].
• 40P/Väisälä's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0z2mxz4^[18].
• 40P/Väisälä's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000101^[19].
• 40P/Väisälä's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6316152020645802'}^[20].
• 40P/Väisälä's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.7'}^[21].
• 40P/Väisälä's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.49264281940788'}^[22].
• 40P/Väisälä's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+4010.246260858229'}^[23].
• 40P/Väisälä's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+133.8401678570807'}^[24].
• 40P/Väisälä's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.939864962861835'}^[25].
• 40P/Väisälä's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+8.059958769551553'}^[26].
• 40P/Väisälä's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.819771156172117'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

40P/Väisälä is credited with the discovery of Yrjö Väisälä^[3].

Why It Matters

40P/Väisälä draws 3 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 183).^[2] 40P/Väisälä has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]