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71P/Clark

Summary

71P/Clark is a periodic comet[1]. 71P/Clark draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #25 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 71P/Clark is credited with the discovery of Michael Clark[3].
  • 71P/Clark's image is recorded as 71P 2017-09-09 NEOWISE image 3-color.png[4].
  • 71P/Clark's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 71P/Clark's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 71P/Clark's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 1994t[8].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 1989h[9].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 1984 VIII[10].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 71P/1978 G1[11].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 1978g[12].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 71P/1973 L1[13].
  • 71P/Clark's provisional designation is recorded as 1973 V[14].
  • 71P/Clark's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1973-06-09T00:00:00Z[15].
  • 71P/Clark's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b5yfc[16].
  • 71P/Clark's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000014[17].
  • 71P/Clark's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.494504749101688'}[18].
  • 71P/Clark's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.1'}[19].
  • 71P/Clark's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.444519066362215'}[20].
  • 71P/Clark's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2031.192988912696'}[21].
  • 71P/Clark's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+59.44359451637261'}[22].
  • 71P/Clark's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.138835154207467'}[23].
  • 71P/Clark's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.691004044610389'}[24].
  • 71P/Clark's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.586666263804545'}[25].
  • 71P/Clark's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+208.9691151233148'}[26].
  • 71P/Clark's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+123.1141536344814'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

71P/Clark is credited with the discovery of Michael Clark[3].

Why It Matters

71P/Clark draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #25 of 183).[2] 71P/Clark 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. [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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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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