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C/1917 F1 (Mellish)

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C/1917 F1 (Mellish)

Summary

C/1917 F1 (Mellish) is a non-periodic comet[1]. C/1917 F1 (Mellish) draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 92).[2]

Key Facts

  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish) is credited with the discovery of John Edward Mellish[3].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s image is recorded as Comet Mellish 1917 nla.news-page18600389-nla.news-article154977211.jpg[4].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[5].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[6].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[7].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1917-03-19T00:00:00Z[9].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000985[10].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.993029439409544'}[11].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.9'}[12].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+32.68628345667515'}[13].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+52059.60251015117'}[14].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+88.67568407976177'}[15].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+27.28569041552048'}[16].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+54.38118427274716'}[17].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.1901965582938094'}[18].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+121.3139959941618'}[19].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.0402773026557277'}[20].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/120_rtbj[21].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s epoch is recorded as 28 Farvardin 1296[22].
  • C/1917 F1 (Mellish)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2421329.675420975'}[23].

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Works and Contributions

C/1917 F1 (Mellish) is credited with the discovery of John Edward Mellish[3].

Why It Matters

C/1917 F1 (Mellish) draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 92).[2] C/1917 F1 (Mellish) has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

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. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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