Comet Hale-Bopp

Summary

Comet Hale-Bopp is a non-periodic comet^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of non_periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,969 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Comet Hale-Bopp is credited with the discovery of Alan Hale^[3].
• Comet Hale-Bopp is credited with the discovery of Thomas Bopp^[4].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's image is recorded as Comet Hale-Bopp 1995O1.jpg^[5].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet^[6].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 315137105^[7].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's GND ID is recorded as 4530121-9^[8].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh97000501^[9].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's Commons category is recorded as Comet Hale-Bopp^[10].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75177^[12].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1995-07-23T00:00:00Z^[13].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021qn^[14].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000132^[15].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's spoken text audio is recorded as Es-Cometa Hale-Bopp 1-article.ogg^[16].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.9949810027633206'}^[17].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0243111^[18].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Comet-Hale-Bopp^[19].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+4.8'}^[20].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+89.4'}^[21].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+89.28759424740302'}^[22].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+863279.5034870314'}^[23].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+282.47'}^[24].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+282.7334213961641'}^[25].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+177.4333839117583'}^[26].
• Comet Hale-Bopp's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+353.9762301599687'}^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Alan Hale^[3], an astronomer^[28], b. 1958^[29], of United States^[30] and Thomas Bopp^[4], an astronomer^[31], 1949–2018^[32], of United States^[33].

Why It Matters

Comet Hale-Bopp ranks in the top 1% of non_periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,969 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]