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C/2012 K6 (McNaught)

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C/2012 K6 (McNaught)

Summary

C/2012 K6 (McNaught) is a non-periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[2].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003193[3].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.9991987753308721'}[4].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+8.9'}[5].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+135.2151033902068'}[6].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+98883435.36821629'}[7].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+206.8985408988809'}[8].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+4184.883888634232'}[9].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+8366.414745059454'}[10].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.35303220900968'}[11].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+338.8267850717343'}[12].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.0008138282426798051'}[13].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6g2t16f[14].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s epoch is recorded as December 31, 2013[15].
  • C/2012 K6 (McNaught)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2456433.9607432336'}[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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