Comet Machholz

Summary

Comet Machholz is a non-periodic comet^[1]. It draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 92).^[2]

Key Facts

• Comet Machholz is credited with the discovery of Donald Machholz^[3].
• Comet Machholz's image is recorded as Machholz-cutout.jpeg^[4].
• Comet Machholz's instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet^[5].
• Comet Machholz's Commons category is recorded as Comet Machholz^[6].
• Comet Machholz's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• Comet Machholz's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-08-27T00:00:00Z^[8].
• Comet Machholz's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04x0bj^[9].
• Comet Machholz's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000507^[10].
• Comet Machholz's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Comet Machholz^[11].
• Comet Machholz's Commons gallery is recorded as C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)^[12].
• Comet Machholz's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.9995013165564023'}^[13].
• Comet Machholz's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.2'}^[14].
• Comet Machholz's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+38.58894877332359'}^[15].
• Comet Machholz's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+43387439.22991589'}^[16].
• Comet Machholz's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+93.62289508735844'}^[17].
• Comet Machholz's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2416.445813892907'}^[18].
• Comet Machholz's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4831.686586266074'}^[19].
• Comet Machholz's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.205041519739395'}^[20].
• Comet Machholz's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+19.50470293910827'}^[21].
• Comet Machholz's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.0005317663345696867'}^[22].
• Comet Machholz's epoch is recorded as March 30, 2005^[23].
• Comet Machholz's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2453395.4111679844'}^[24].

Body

Works and Contributions

Comet Machholz is credited with the discovery of Donald Machholz^[3].

Why It Matters

Comet Machholz draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (non_periodic_comet category, ranking #31 of 92).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[26]