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C/1992 N1 (Machholz)

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Summary

C/1992 N1 (Machholz) is a non-periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz) is credited with the discovery of Donald Machholz[2].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[3].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[4].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1992-07-02T00:00:00Z[5].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1001259[6].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1.004624882362232'}[7].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+9.7'}[8].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+57.56797243985144'}[9].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+235.1639902838394'}[10].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '-177.1639369404108'}[11].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+0.8193623671792718'}[12].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+162.3078535539666'}[13].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '-0.0006895111678787459'}[14].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1218r_wb[15].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s epoch is recorded as July 9, 1992[16].
  • C/1992 N1 (Machholz)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2448814.14968192'}[17].

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Works and Contributions

C/1992 N1 (Machholz) is credited with the discovery of Donald Machholz[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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