81P/Wild

Summary

81P/Wild is a periodic comet^[1]. 81P/Wild ranks in the top 5% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 81P/Wild is credited with the discovery of Paul Wild^[3].
• 81P/Wild's image is recorded as Wild2 3.jpg^[4].
• 81P/Wild's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 81P/Wild's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• Paul Wild is named after 81P/Wild^[7].
• 81P/Wild's Commons category is recorded as Comet Wild 2^[8].
• 81P/Wild's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 81P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 1989t^[10].
• 81P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 81P/1983 S1^[11].
• 81P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 1984 XIV^[12].
• 81P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 81P/1978 A2^[13].
• 81P/Wild's provisional designation is recorded as 1978 XI^[14].
• 81P/Wild's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1978-00-00T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 81P/Wild's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1978-01-06T00:00:00Z^[16].
• 81P/Wild's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/019mq0^[17].
• 81P/Wild's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000107^[18].
• 81P/Wild's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5374418905739119'}^[19].
• 81P/Wild's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Comet-81P^[20].
• 81P/Wild's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.8'}^[21].
• 81P/Wild's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+3.237087317377428'}^[22].
• 81P/Wild's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2340.237978946102'}^[23].
• 81P/Wild's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+136.1112028538047'}^[24].
• 81P/Wild's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.449644944218386'}^[25].
• 81P/Wild's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.303628644847852'}^[26].
• 81P/Wild's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.59566124358892'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

81P/Wild is credited with the discovery of Paul Wild^[3].

Why It Matters

81P/Wild ranks in the top 5% of periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month).^[2] 81P/Wild has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] 81P/Wild is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]