C/2008 S3 (Boattini)

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C/2008 S3 (Boattini)

Summary

C/2008 S3 (Boattini) is a comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini) is credited with the discovery of Andrea Boattini[2].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s instance of is recorded as comet[3].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[4].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2008-09-29T00:00:00Z[5].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1002998[6].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1.001077486731166'}[7].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+8.3'}[8].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+162.7027984817679'}[9].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+54.93805418784181'}[10].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '-7441.31595149412'}[11].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+8.017919200149057'}[12].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+39.93776745486598'}[13].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '-0.00007526498768049825'}[14].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1227pwqt[15].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s epoch is recorded as April 19, 2011[16].
  • C/2008 S3 (Boattini)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2455719.518897368'}[17].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include comet[3] and hyperbolic comet[4].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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