87P/Bus

Summary

87P/Bus is a periodic comet^[1]. 87P/Bus draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #20 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 87P/Bus is credited with the discovery of Schelte J. Bus^[3].
• 87P/Bus's image is recorded as Comet 87P Bus u65z1f02r.fits.gz sci.jpg^[4].
• 87P/Bus's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 87P/Bus's instance of is recorded as Encke-type comet^[6].
• 87P/Bus's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 87P/Bus's provisional designation is recorded as 1993b^[8].
• 87P/Bus's provisional designation is recorded as 87P/1987 B4^[9].
• 87P/Bus's provisional designation is recorded as 1987f^[10].
• 87P/Bus's provisional designation is recorded as 87P/1981 E1^[11].
• 87P/Bus's provisional designation is recorded as 1981 XI^[12].
• 87P/Bus's provisional designation is recorded as 1981b^[13].
• 87P/Bus's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1981-03-02T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 87P/Bus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/033623^[15].
• 87P/Bus's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000010^[16].
• 87P/Bus's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3893476920698341'}^[17].
• 87P/Bus's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.7'}^[18].
• 87P/Bus's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+2.6023944932398'}^[19].
• 87P/Bus's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2331.313629398277'}^[20].
• 87P/Bus's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+181.8898060895848'}^[21].
• 87P/Bus's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.440869358876915'}^[22].
• 87P/Bus's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.780563902469451'}^[23].
• 87P/Bus's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.101174815284378'}^[24].
• 87P/Bus's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+24.75638615410691'}^[25].
• 87P/Bus's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+126.7935222833317'}^[26].
• 87P/Bus's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+0.56'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

87P/Bus is credited with the discovery of Schelte J. Bus^[3].

Why It Matters

87P/Bus draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #20 of 183).^[2] 87P/Bus has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]