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C/2012 H2 (McNaught)

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C/2012 H2 (McNaught)

Summary

C/2012 H2 (McNaught) is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught) is credited with the discovery of Robert H. McNaught[2].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s instance of is recorded as Halley-type comet[4].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003187[5].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.893609443803773'}[6].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+15.7'}[7].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+92.83558531160249'}[8].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+23676.24400044121'}[9].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+184.1359475078656'}[10].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+16.13650908325982'}[11].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+30.55624599008615'}[12].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.71677217643348'}[13].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+295.9019823745012'}[14].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.2169493908813492'}[15].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/119pgml3d[16].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s epoch is recorded as May 18, 2012[17].
  • C/2012 H2 (McNaught)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2456051.2318146825'}[18].

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Works and Contributions

C/2012 H2 (McNaught) is credited with the discovery of Robert H. McNaught[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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