C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)

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C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)

Summary

C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) is a non-periodic comet[1]. C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #34 of 92).[2]

Key Facts

  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) is credited with the discovery of Tsutomu Seki[3].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) is credited with the discovery of Richard D. Lines[4].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s image is recorded as Comet Seki-Lines.jpg[5].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[6].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[7].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1962-02-04T00:00:00Z[9].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1001113[10].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+1.000004460412146'}[11].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+65.01448207761743'}[12].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+304.6776920048247'}[13].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '-7039.189218761485'}[14].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.03139768508991173'}[15].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.47329371109639'}[16].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.00009735633884105686'}[17].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122t1p5z[18].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s epoch is recorded as May 30, 1962[19].
  • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2437756.162996329'}[20].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Tsutomu Seki[3], an amateur astronomer[21], b. 1930[22], of Japan[23] and Richard D. Lines[4], an amateur astronomer[24], 1916–1992[25], of United States[26].

Why It Matters

C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) draws 6 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #34 of 92).[2] C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

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

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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