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C/2018 V1

comet
Thing non_periodic_comet Q58903900

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
non-periodic comet, hyperbolic comet, interstellar object[3][4]
Absolute magnitude
12.8[7]
Argument of periapsis
88.77491355817259[12]
Discoverer or inventor
Donald Machholz[2]
Epoch
November 16, 2018[14]
Longitude of ascending node
128.7220909046342[9]
Mean anomaly
-0.0005534292952922258[13]
Orbital eccentricity
1.000390606749757[6]
Orbital inclination
143.9879595892249[8]
Periapsis
0.3869549474667874[11]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
-990.6509493436076[10]
Time of discovery or invention
November 7, 2018[5]
Time of periapsis
2458456.008101698[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en C/2018 V1 cs C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto) ja マックホルツ・藤川・岩本彗星
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
C2018 v1-skypath.png ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11fhktkft6
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1003590
Minor Planet Center body ID
C/2018 V1

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
interstellar object, non-periodic comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Donald Machholz
Epoch 1
November 16, 2018
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Summary

C/2018 V1 is a non-periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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