72D/Denning-Fujikawa

Summary

72D/Denning-Fujikawa is a periodic comet^[1]. 72D/Denning-Fujikawa draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa is credited with the discovery of William Frederick Denning^[3].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa is credited with the discovery of Shigehisa Fujikawa^[4].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[7].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's provisional designation is recorded as 72P/1978 T2^[9].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's provisional designation is recorded as 1978 XIX^[10].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's provisional designation is recorded as 72P/1881 T1^[11].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's provisional designation is recorded as 1881 V^[12].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's provisional designation is recorded as 1978n^[13].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's provisional designation is recorded as 1881f^[14].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1881-10-04T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dd2kms^[16].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000020^[17].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.8204597361832054'}^[18].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+17.5'}^[19].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.23291453210614'}^[20].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3310.847156883339'}^[21].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+35.43563460937888'}^[22].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.347375333884013'}^[23].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+7.914221753411866'}^[24].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.780528914356161'}^[25].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+338.4729645344689'}^[26].
• 72D/Denning-Fujikawa's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+47.37730662380368'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include William Frederick Denning^[3], an astronomer^[28], 1848–1931^[29], of United Kingdom^[30], awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society^[31] and Shigehisa Fujikawa^[4], an astronomer^[32], b. 2000^[33], of Japan^[34].

Why It Matters

72D/Denning-Fujikawa draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).^[2] 72D/Denning-Fujikawa has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35]