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90P/Gehrels

Summary

90P/Gehrels is a periodic comet[1]. 90P/Gehrels draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 90P/Gehrels is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels[3].
  • 90P/Gehrels's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 90P/Gehrels's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 90P/Gehrels's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 90P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 90P/1987 Q2[7].
  • 90P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 1987 XVI[8].
  • 90P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 90P/1972 T1[9].
  • 90P/Gehrels's provisional designation is recorded as 1973 I[10].
  • 90P/Gehrels's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1972-10-11T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 90P/Gehrels's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0134xz07[12].
  • 90P/Gehrels's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000029[13].
  • 90P/Gehrels's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5097928579287074'}[14].
  • 90P/Gehrels's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+7.0'}[15].
  • 90P/Gehrels's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.63537617397107'}[16].
  • 90P/Gehrels's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+5460.557027015659'}[17].
  • 90P/Gehrels's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.2518277429544'}[18].
  • 90P/Gehrels's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.068653574431163'}[19].
  • 90P/Gehrels's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.162409823919692'}[20].
  • 90P/Gehrels's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.974897324942635'}[21].
  • 90P/Gehrels's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+29.27002672646282'}[22].
  • 90P/Gehrels's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+351.8727795717881'}[23].
  • 90P/Gehrels's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+7.8'}[24].
  • 90P/Gehrels's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000029[25].
  • 90P/Gehrels's epoch is recorded as February 16, 2017[26].
  • 90P/Gehrels's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2457923.7754183873'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

90P/Gehrels is credited with the discovery of Tom Gehrels[3].

Why It Matters

90P/Gehrels draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #30 of 183).[2] 90P/Gehrels has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

Tom Gehrels

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.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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