79P/du Toit-Hartley

Summary

79P/du Toit-Hartley is a periodic comet^[1]. It draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 79P/du Toit-Hartley is credited with the discovery of Daniel du Toit^[3].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley is credited with the discovery of Malcolm Hartley^[4].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[7].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1987 IX^[9].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 79P/1982 C1-B^[10].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 79P/1982 C1-A^[11].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1982 II^[12].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 79P/1945 G1^[13].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1945c^[14].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1986q^[15].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1982b^[16].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's provisional designation is recorded as 1945 II^[17].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1945-04-09T00:00:00Z^[18].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dd391v^[19].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000022^[20].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5940852746390944'}^[21].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+17.4'}^[22].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+2.893178304077592'}^[23].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1927.839229717152'}^[24].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+307.8386464761982'}^[25].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.031434980645364'}^[26].
• 79P/du Toit-Hartley's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.832365863672623'}^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Daniel du Toit^[3], an astronomer^[28], 1871–1959^[29], of South Africa^[30] and Malcolm Hartley^[4], an astronomer^[31], b. 1947^[32], of Australia^[33].

Why It Matters

79P/du Toit-Hartley draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34]