48P/Johnson

Summary

48P/Johnson is a periodic comet^[1]. 48P/Johnson draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 48P/Johnson is credited with the discovery of Ernest Leonard Johnson^[3].
• 48P/Johnson's image is recorded as 48P 2018-08-21 image ZTF-sso-291-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png^[4].
• 48P/Johnson's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 48P/Johnson's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 48P/Johnson's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1990 XXIII^[8].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1983h^[9].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1977 I^[10].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1970 IV^[11].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1963 IV^[12].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 48P/1956 P1^[13].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1956f^[14].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 48P/1949 Q1^[15].
• 48P/Johnson's provisional designation is recorded as 1949d^[16].
• 48P/Johnson's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1949-08-25T00:00:00Z^[17].
• 48P/Johnson's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b3gzp^[18].
• 48P/Johnson's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000049^[19].
• 48P/Johnson's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3678139209714429'}^[20].
• 48P/Johnson's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.8'}^[21].
• 48P/Johnson's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.66065688238793'}^[22].
• 48P/Johnson's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2538.54842288906'}^[23].
• 48P/Johnson's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+117.2876041559334'}^[24].
• 48P/Johnson's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.641872048101626'}^[25].
• 48P/Johnson's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.981403285790184'}^[26].
• 48P/Johnson's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.302340810413068'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

48P/Johnson is credited with the discovery of Ernest Leonard Johnson^[3].

Why It Matters

48P/Johnson draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2] 48P/Johnson has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]