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65P/Gunn

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65P/Gunn
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65P/Gunn

Summary

65P/Gunn is a periodic comet[1]. 65P/Gunn draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 65P/Gunn is credited with the discovery of James E. Gunn[3].
  • 65P/Gunn's image is recorded as Comet 65P Gunn WISE.jpg[4].
  • 65P/Gunn's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 65P/Gunn's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 65P/Gunn's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 65P/Gunn's provisional designation is recorded as 1989 XI[8].
  • 65P/Gunn's provisional designation is recorded as 1976 III[9].
  • 65P/Gunn's provisional designation is recorded as 65P/1970 U2[10].
  • 65P/Gunn's provisional designation is recorded as 1969 II[11].
  • 65P/Gunn's provisional designation is recorded as 65P/1954 P1[12].
  • 65P/Gunn's provisional designation is recorded as 1953 VIII[13].
  • 65P/Gunn's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1970-10-27T00:00:00Z[14].
  • 65P/Gunn's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b41db[15].
  • 65P/Gunn's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000035[16].
  • 65P/Gunn's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2499599810049728'}[17].
  • 65P/Gunn's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.5'}[18].
  • 65P/Gunn's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.185293773089974'}[19].
  • 65P/Gunn's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2791.427284624695'}[20].
  • 65P/Gunn's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+62.01734589958912'}[21].
  • 65P/Gunn's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.879882691425759'}[22].
  • 65P/Gunn's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.849698095276064'}[23].
  • 65P/Gunn's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.910067287575453'}[24].
  • 65P/Gunn's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+213.5491706951181'}[25].
  • 65P/Gunn's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.693399736153852'}[26].
  • 65P/Gunn's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+10.8'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

65P/Gunn is credited with the discovery of James E. Gunn[3].

Why It Matters

65P/Gunn draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).[2] 65P/Gunn has Wikipedia articles in 7 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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 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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