comet tail

dust or gases blown off a comet by solar wind in the inner solar system, leaving a visible trail
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comet tail
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comet tail

Summary

comet tail ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (201 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • comet tail's image is recorded as Iss030e015472 Edit.jpg[2].
  • comet tail's subclass of is recorded as physical system[3].
  • comet tail's subclass of is recorded as physical phenomenon[4].
  • comet tail's part of is recorded as comet[5].
  • comet tail's Commons category is recorded as Comet tails[6].
  • comet tail's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07kghh_[7].
  • comet tail's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/comet-tail[8].
  • comet tail's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/dust-tail[9].
  • comet tail's Quora topic ID is recorded as Comet-Tail-1[10].
  • comet tail's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 274[11].
  • comet tail's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 198738867[12].
  • comet tail's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C198738867[13].
  • comet tail's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 尾(彗星)[14].

Why It Matters

comet tail ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (201 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [10] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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