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66P/du Toit

Summary

66P/du Toit is a periodic comet[1]. It draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 66P/du Toit is credited with the discovery of Daniel du Toit[3].
  • 66P/du Toit's image is recorded as 66P 2018-06-20 NEOWISE image 3-color.png[4].
  • 66P/du Toit's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 66P/du Toit's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 66P/du Toit's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[7].
  • 66P/du Toit's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 66P/du Toit's provisional designation is recorded as 66P/1974 F2[9].
  • 66P/du Toit's provisional designation is recorded as 1974 IV[10].
  • 66P/du Toit's provisional designation is recorded as 66P/1944 K1[11].
  • 66P/du Toit's provisional designation is recorded as 1944c[12].
  • 66P/du Toit's provisional designation is recorded as 1944 III[13].
  • 66P/du Toit's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1944-05-16T00:00:00Z[14].
  • 66P/du Toit's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dd2kmd[15].
  • 66P/du Toit's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000021[16].
  • 66P/du Toit's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.7865681713017859'}[17].
  • 66P/du Toit's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.7'}[18].
  • 66P/du Toit's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+18.6689713312349'}[19].
  • 66P/du Toit's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+5398.749353121446'}[20].
  • 66P/du Toit's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+21.99985095509755'}[21].
  • 66P/du Toit's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.022772962563499'}[22].
  • 66P/du Toit's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+10.76009447789291'}[23].
  • 66P/du Toit's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.285451447234088'}[24].
  • 66P/du Toit's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+257.342734110419'}[25].
  • 66P/du Toit's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+273.4820324828293'}[26].
  • 66P/du Toit's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000021[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

66P/du Toit is credited with the discovery of Daniel du Toit[3].

Why It Matters

66P/du Toit draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 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. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.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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