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Comet West

Comet with the highest orbiting period
Thing Hyperbolic Comet Q677840

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
hyperbolic comet
Absolute magnitude
4.4[5]
Argument of periapsis
358.4317208087168[10]
Discoverer or inventor
Richard Martin West[2]
Epoch
May 10, 1976[12]
Longitude of ascending node
118.9175346769632[7]
Mean anomaly
5.455779729386018e-05[11]
Orbital eccentricity
1.000016[4]
Orbital inclination
43.074[6]
Periapsis
0.196595[9]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
12220.0[8]
Time of discovery or invention
1975[3]
Time of periapsis
2442833.7219778746[13]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
C-west-1976-ps.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/02t855
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
West
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1001163

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Summary

Comet West is a hyperbolic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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