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C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)

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Summary

C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson) is a non-periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson) is credited with the discovery of Kenneth S. Russell[2].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson) is credited with the discovery of Fred G. Watson[3].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[4].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[5].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1996-08-10T00:00:00Z[6].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000179[7].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1.00008353549162'}[8].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+5.0'}[9].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+29.0831296309875'}[10].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+101.4034778917003'}[11].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '-24011.9914044256'}[12].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.005853506743677'}[13].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+188.7995314390275'}[14].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.00006957819107827316'}[15].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11c2y30lx1[16].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s epoch is recorded as November 19, 1996[17].
  • C/1996 P2 (Russell-Watson)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2450143.829483216'}[18].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Kenneth S. Russell[2], an astronomer[19], b. 1953[20], of Australia[21] and Fred G. Watson[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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