C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)

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C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)

Summary

C/2001 W2 (BATTERS) is a Halley-type comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS) is credited with the discovery of BATTeRS[2].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[3].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[4].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000362[5].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.9413747812522384'}[6].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+12.1'}[7].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+115.9130793147368'}[8].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+27727.84958525995'}[9].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+113.3558524952364'}[10].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+17.92855034426878'}[11].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+34.80603550277455'}[12].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.051065185763014'}[13].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+142.0857916096556'}[14].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+359.7543772264125'}[15].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/128dgbr7w[16].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s epoch is recorded as December 5, 2001[17].
  • C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2452267.4183092243'}[18].

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Works and Contributions

C/2001 W2 (BATTERS) is credited with the discovery of BATTeRS[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] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] . 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.

Class ancestry

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

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