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C/2006 M4

comet
Thing hyperbolic_comet Q1022603

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
hyperbolic comet
Absolute magnitude
11.0[7]
Argument of periapsis
62.59437100123628[12]
Discoverer or inventor
Robert Matson, Michael Mattiazzo[2][3]
Epoch
November 10, 2006[14]
Longitude of ascending node
148.7268421584153[9]
Mean anomaly
0.0001513674291051965[13]
Orbital eccentricity
1.000185049039808[6]
Orbital inclination
111.8232624168263[8]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
0.7830082351241019[11]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
-4231.355298769043[10]
Time of discovery or invention
June 20, 2006[5]
Time of periapsis
2454007.228505603[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en C/2006 M4 en C/2006 M4 (SWAN) it C/2006 M4 SWAN pl Kometa SWAN zh C/2006 M$ (SWAN)
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
C2006 M4 SWAN + Orionid meteor.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0260804
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1002407

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Discoverer or inventor 1
Robert Matson
Epoch 1
November 10, 2006
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

C/2006 M4 is a hyperbolic comet[1].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Robert Matson[2], an astronomer[16], b. 1962[17], of United States[18] and Michael Mattiazzo[3], an astronomer[19].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  4. [5] ↑ . 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.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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