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99P/Kowal

Summary

99P/Kowal is a periodic comet[1]. 99P/Kowal draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 99P/Kowal is credited with the discovery of Charles T. Kowal[3].
  • 99P/Kowal's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 99P/Kowal's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 99P/Kowal's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 99P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 99P/1991 D2[7].
  • 99P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 1991i[8].
  • 99P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 99P/1977 H2[9].
  • 99P/Kowal's provisional designation is recorded as 1977 III[10].
  • 99P/Kowal's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1977-04-24T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 99P/Kowal's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b898j[12].
  • 99P/Kowal's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000055[13].
  • 99P/Kowal's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2296848037533113'}[14].
  • 99P/Kowal's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.7'}[15].
  • 99P/Kowal's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.337463321740445'}[16].
  • 99P/Kowal's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+5550.586452636229'}[17].
  • 99P/Kowal's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+28.17946893961375'}[18].
  • 99P/Kowal's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.135175111809532'}[19].
  • 99P/Kowal's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+7.544331603357703'}[20].
  • 99P/Kowal's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.72601862026136'}[21].
  • 99P/Kowal's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+174.1919145036272'}[22].
  • 99P/Kowal's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+187.1904687650789'}[23].
  • 99P/Kowal's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+10.2'}[24].
  • 99P/Kowal's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000055[25].
  • 99P/Kowal's epoch is recorded as December 22, 2014[26].
  • 99P/Kowal's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2459677.9284526636'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

99P/Kowal is credited with the discovery of Charles T. Kowal[3].

Why It Matters

99P/Kowal draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).[2] 99P/Kowal 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. [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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. 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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