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C/2008 E1 (Catalina)

Summary

C/2008 E1 (Catalina) is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina) is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey[2].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1002496[5].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.5481486227040668'}[6].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+11.6'}[7].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+35.03767560658133'}[8].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+12760.82089998438'}[9].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+189.0225130395271'}[10].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+10.6869421288352'}[11].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+16.54497473767428'}[12].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+4.828909519996117'}[13].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+269.9888305320948'}[14].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+3.41796590237852'}[15].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121g1ky_[16].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s epoch is recorded as December 11, 2008[17].
  • C/2008 E1 (Catalina)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2454690.344303549'}[18].

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Works and Contributions

C/2008 E1 (Catalina) is credited with the discovery of Catalina Sky Survey[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . 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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