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60P/Tsuchinshan

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60P/Tsuchinshan

Summary

60P/Tsuchinshan is a periodic comet[1]. 60P/Tsuchinshan draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 60P/Tsuchinshan is credited with the discovery of Purple Mountain Observatory[3].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's image is recorded as 60P 2019-01-04 image ZTF-sso-420-zg-fov-11arcmin.png[4].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 1992 XII[8].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 1985d[9].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 1978p[10].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 60P/1971 S1[11].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 1971d[12].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 60P/1965 A2[13].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 1965c[14].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's provisional designation is recorded as 60P/1991e1[15].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1965-01-11T00:00:00Z[16].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b4195[17].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000098[18].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.538536691475378'}[19].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.3'}[20].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+3.608949186300423'}[21].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2401.546214736022'}[22].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+267.6612927793719'}[23].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.509632807161156'}[24].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.399698847423169'}[25].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.619566766899144'}[26].
  • 60P/Tsuchinshan's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+216.4936690753554'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

60P/Tsuchinshan is credited with the discovery of Purple Mountain Observatory[3].

Why It Matters

60P/Tsuchinshan draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2] 60P/Tsuchinshan has Wikipedia articles in 8 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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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.

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