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C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)

Summary

C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater) is a hyperbolic comet[1]. C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater) draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (hyperbolic_comet category, ranking #9 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[3].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000158[4].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1.00102832817524'}[5].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+6.5'}[6].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+22.51637369847596'}[7].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+278.1694364468734'}[8].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '-1261.956885171863'}[9].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.297705820957689'}[10].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+14.80107757473941'}[11].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.008632046852284062'}[12].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1224zls6[13].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s epoch is recorded as January 27, 1998[14].
  • C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2450447.8763182843'}[15].

Why It Matters

C/1996 J1-A (Evans-Drinkwater) draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (hyperbolic_comet category, ranking #9 of 8).[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 . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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