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50P/Arend

Summary

50P/Arend is a periodic comet[1]. 50P/Arend draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 50P/Arend is credited with the discovery of Sylvain Arend[3].
  • 50P/Arend's image is recorded as Comet Arend 1951j.jpg[4].
  • 50P/Arend's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 50P/Arend's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • Sylvain Arend is named after 50P/Arend[7].
  • 50P/Arend's location of discovery is recorded as Royal Observatory of Belgium[8].
  • 50P/Arend's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[9].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1991u[10].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1983 VIII[11].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1975m[12].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1967l[13].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 50P/1959 N1[14].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1959 V[15].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 50P/1951 T1[16].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1951j[17].
  • 50P/Arend's provisional designation is recorded as 1959c[18].
  • 50P/Arend's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1951-10-04T00:00:00Z[19].
  • 50P/Arend's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bbwlk5[20].
  • 50P/Arend's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000001[21].
  • 50P/Arend's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5299535140380527'}[22].
  • 50P/Arend's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.8'}[23].
  • 50P/Arend's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+19.16249670789929'}[24].
  • 50P/Arend's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3019.027679922521'}[25].
  • 50P/Arend's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+355.3249124534394'}[26].
  • 50P/Arend's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.088014667341889'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

50P/Arend is credited with the discovery of Sylvain Arend[3].

Why It Matters

50P/Arend draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2] 50P/Arend has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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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