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C/2020 F8 (SWAN)

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C/2020 F8 (SWAN)

Summary

C/2020 F8 (SWAN) is a non-periodic comet[1]. C/2020 F8 (SWAN) draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 92).[2]

Key Facts

  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s route map is recorded as C 2020 F8 SWAN.jpg[3].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s image is recorded as C2020 F8 (SWAN) on 1 May from Indonesia.jpg[4].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[5].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Solar and Heliospheric Observatory[6].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s Commons category is recorded as C/2020 F8 (SWAN)[7].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2020-04-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003671[10].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.999935216427192'}[11].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.6'}[12].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+110.7977498883903'}[13].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+197745475.8752437'}[14].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+260.0292279461612'}[15].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6642.609969080713'}[16].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+13284.78960615486'}[17].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.4303320065673257'}[18].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+68.19332611345386'}[19].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+359.9999425718086'}[20].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11j5z8lwm5[21].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s epoch is recorded as April 26, 2020[22].
  • C/2020 F8 (SWAN)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2458997.044902864'}[23].

Why It Matters

C/2020 F8 (SWAN) draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 92).[2] C/2020 F8 (SWAN) has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

Related Entities

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. Retrieved . minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . 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.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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