C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)

hyperbolic comet discovered in 2018
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C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)

Summary

C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet[1]. C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 92).[2]

Key Facts

  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Survey[3].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s image is recorded as A2018 C2-orbit.png[4].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[5].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet[6].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s Commons category is recorded as C/2018 C2[7].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2018-02-05T00:00:00Z[8].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003566[9].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1.00180655729515'}[10].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+7.6'}[11].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+34.45339329783236'}[12].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+91.13971556097802'}[13].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '-1083.00606097916'}[14].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.95651250015357'}[15].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+134.1384875107038'}[16].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '-0.0003656942097377445'}[17].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11f4r8bj4j[18].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as C/2018 C2[19].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s epoch is recorded as May 20, 2018[20].
  • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2458271.7239238825'}[21].

Body

Works and Contributions

C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Survey[3].

Why It Matters

C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 92).[2]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . 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.

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