97P/Metcalf–Brewington

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97P/Metcalf–Brewington

Summary

97P/Metcalf–Brewington is a periodic comet[1]. 97P/Metcalf–Brewington draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #25 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington is credited with the discovery of Joel Hastings Metcalf[3].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's image is recorded as 97P 2021-11-10 image ZTF-sso-398-zr-fov-4.0arcmin.png[4].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's provisional designation is recorded as 97P/1991 A1[8].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's provisional designation is recorded as 1991a[9].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's provisional designation is recorded as 97P/1906 V2[10].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's provisional designation is recorded as 1906 VI[11].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1906-11-15T00:00:00Z[12].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000128[13].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4569372913054443'}[14].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.2'}[15].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+17.8610361664066'}[16].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3840.894468715724'}[17].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+185.1745222244001'}[18].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.799794369546206'}[19].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.992999407589772'}[20].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.606589331502639'}[21].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+228.2272899897204'}[22].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+188.2989472836929'}[23].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+3.4'}[24].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121zcdtk[25].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000128[26].
  • 97P/Metcalf–Brewington's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 97P[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

97P/Metcalf–Brewington is credited with the discovery of Joel Hastings Metcalf[3].

Why It Matters

97P/Metcalf–Brewington draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #25 of 183).[2] 97P/Metcalf–Brewington 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] . 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 . 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] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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