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Comet Machholz

astronomical object
Thing non_periodic_comet Q1022601

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
non-periodic comet
Absolute magnitude
11.2[6]
Apoapsis
4831.686586266074[11]
Argument of periapsis
19.50470293910827[13]
Discoverer or inventor
Donald Machholz[2]
Epoch
March 30, 2005[15]
Longitude of ascending node
93.62289508735844[9]
Mean anomaly
0.0005317663345696867[14]
Orbital eccentricity
0.9995013165564023[5]
Orbital inclination
38.58894877332359[7]
Orbital period
43387439.22991589[8]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[3]
Periapsis
1.205041519739395[12]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2416.445813892907[10]
Time of discovery or invention
August 27, 2004[4]
Time of periapsis
2453395.4111679844[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en C/2004 Q2 en C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) en Comet Machholz cs C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) cs Kometa Machholz es Machholz fi Komeetta Machholz fi C/2004 Q2 fi Machholz fi Machholzin komeetta fr Comète C/2004 Q2 fr Comete Machholz fr Comète Machholz fr La comète Machholz it C/2004 Q2 Machholz it C/2004 Q2 it Cometa Machholz (C/2004 Q2) ja C/2004 Q2 ja マックホルツ彗星 ko 맥홀츠혜성
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Machholz-cutout.jpeg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/04x0bj
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000507
Topic's main category
Category:Comet Machholz

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Discoverer or inventor 1
Donald Machholz
Epoch 1
March 30, 2005
Instance of 1
non-periodic comet
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

Comet Machholz is a non-periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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