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84P/Giclas

Summary

84P/Giclas is a periodic comet[1]. 84P/Giclas draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 84P/Giclas is credited with the discovery of Henry L. Giclas[3].
  • 84P/Giclas's image is recorded as 84P 2020-08-14 image ZTF-sso-563-zr-fov-4.0arcmin.png[4].
  • 84P/Giclas's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 84P/Giclas's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 84P/Giclas's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 1992 XXV[8].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 84P/1985 M1[9].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 1985 XV[10].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 84P/1978 R2[11].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 1978k[12].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 1992l[13].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 1985g[14].
  • 84P/Giclas's provisional designation is recorded as 1978 XXII[15].
  • 84P/Giclas's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1978-09-08T00:00:00Z[16].
  • 84P/Giclas's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b7spg[17].
  • 84P/Giclas's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000033[18].
  • 84P/Giclas's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4944679176981627'}[19].
  • 84P/Giclas's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.2'}[20].
  • 84P/Giclas's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+7.284293770723781'}[21].
  • 84P/Giclas's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2537.323337889819'}[22].
  • 84P/Giclas's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+112.3893362880986'}[23].
  • 84P/Giclas's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.640700259876713'}[24].
  • 84P/Giclas's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.44090973634111'}[25].
  • 84P/Giclas's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.840490783412315'}[26].
  • 84P/Giclas's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+276.4047896990754'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

84P/Giclas is credited with the discovery of Henry L. Giclas[3].

Why It Matters

84P/Giclas draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).[2] 84P/Giclas 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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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