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63P/Wild

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63P/Wild
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63P/Wild

Summary

63P/Wild is a periodic comet[1]. 63P/Wild draws 17 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #19 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 63P/Wild is credited with the discovery of Paul Wild[3].
  • 63P/Wild's image is recorded as 63P 2013-04-04 PTF ImageDownload-3-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-wpzq9---1.png[4].
  • 63P/Wild's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 63P/Wild's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 63P/Wild's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 63P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 63P/1973 A2[8].
  • 63P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 1973c[9].
  • 63P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 63P/1960 G1[10].
  • 63P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 1960b[11].
  • 63P/Wild's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1960-03-26T00:00:00Z[12].
  • 63P/Wild's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012gcjpn[13].
  • 63P/Wild's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000106[14].
  • 63P/Wild's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6509190323024351'}[15].
  • 63P/Wild's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.5'}[16].
  • 63P/Wild's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+19.77997964011996'}[17].
  • 63P/Wild's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+4824.517313185734'}[18].
  • 63P/Wild's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+358.0018642381609'}[19].
  • 63P/Wild's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.587749927389681'}[20].
  • 63P/Wild's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.224922702874174'}[21].
  • 63P/Wild's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.950577151905188'}[22].
  • 63P/Wild's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+169.0295202220291'}[23].
  • 63P/Wild's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+24.1890970612711'}[24].
  • 63P/Wild's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+2.9'}[25].
  • 63P/Wild's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000106[26].
  • 63P/Wild's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 63P[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

63P/Wild is credited with the discovery of Paul Wild[3].

Why It Matters

63P/Wild draws 17 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #19 of 183).[2] 63P/Wild has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . 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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