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C/1959 Q2 (Alcock)

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Summary

C/1959 Earth (Alcock) is a non-periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock) is credited with the discovery of George Alcock[2].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s image is recorded as Comet 1959f Alcock - Roemer.jpg[3].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[4].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[5].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1959-08-30T00:00:00Z[6].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1001104[7].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1.000431207331336'}[8].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+108.0357262988652'}[9].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+225.8410218730032'}[10].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '-384.520509608663'}[11].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+0.1658080627922902'}[12].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+300.535111337181'}[13].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '-0.001552886580722473'}[14].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11h1j33nvz[15].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s epoch is recorded as September 4, 1959[16].
  • C/1959 Earth (Alcock)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2436827.3799585933'}[17].

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Works and Contributions

C/1959 Earth (Alcock) is credited with the discovery of George Alcock[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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