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C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)

Summary

C/2012 A2 (LINEAR) is a non-periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[2].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003167[3].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.9963877725497086'}[4].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+10.6'}[5].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+125.8684773041127'}[6].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+11193754.42315516'}[7].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+191.4047721428131'}[8].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+979.3055864689552'}[9].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1955.073698416244'}[10].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.537474521666916'}[11].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+101.6720433046215'}[12].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.000865098228958816'}[13].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6g50jyh[14].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s epoch is recorded as December 2, 2012[15].
  • C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2456236.600841314'}[16].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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