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C/2017 A3 (Elenin)

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C/2017 A3 (Elenin)

Summary

C/2017 A3 (Elenin) is a non-periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin) is credited with the discovery of Leonid Elenin[2].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[3].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[4].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2017-01-05T00:00:00Z[5].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003493[6].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.9110761633788587'}[7].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+9.7'}[8].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+98.5084773671179'}[9].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+104239.046117584'}[10].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+97.90394337289965'}[11].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+43.34656303172548'}[12].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+82.8385833743298'}[13].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.854542689121162'}[14].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+304.1075321626525'}[15].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+0.03589856447896829'}[16].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11g8_rs1fj[17].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s epoch is recorded as February 10, 2017[18].
  • C/2017 A3 (Elenin)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2457784.1054663383'}[19].

Body

Works and Contributions

C/2017 A3 (Elenin) is credited with the discovery of Leonid Elenin[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . 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] ↑ . 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.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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