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C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)

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C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)

Summary

C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet[1]. C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 92).[2]

Key Facts

  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Observatory[3].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s image is recorded as C2012F6Lemmon.jpg[4].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[5].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s Commons category is recorded as C/2012 F6[6].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2012-03-23T00:00:00Z[7].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0q5f81x[8].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003183[9].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.9984989157707214'}[10].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+5.6'}[11].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+82.60887339118153'}[12].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3927165.351279631'}[13].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+332.7152960821801'}[14].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+487.1400544747901'}[15].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+973.5488706963582'}[16].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.7312382532220438'}[17].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+304.9869169886965'}[18].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.01159487003602746'}[19].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s epoch is recorded as July 29, 2013[20].
  • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456376.013967061'}[21].

Body

Works and Contributions

C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Observatory[3].

Why It Matters

C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 92).[2] C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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