Comet West

Summary

Comet West is a hyperbolic comet^[1]. It draws 20 Wikipedia views per month (hyperbolic_comet category, ranking #2 of 8).^[2]

Key Facts

• Comet West is credited with the discovery of Richard Martin West^[3].
• Comet West's image is recorded as C-west-1976-ps.jpg^[4].
• Comet West's instance of is recorded as hyperbolic comet^[5].
• Comet West's Commons category is recorded as Comet West (C/1975 V1)^[6].
• Comet West's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1975-00-00T00:00:00Z^[7].
• Comet West's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02t855^[8].
• Comet West's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1001163^[9].
• Comet West's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+1.000016'}^[10].
• Comet West's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+4.4'}^[11].
• Comet West's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+43.074'}^[12].
• Comet West's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+118.9175346769632'}^[13].
• Comet West's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+12220'}^[14].
• Comet West's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.196595'}^[15].
• Comet West's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+358.4317208087168'}^[16].
• Comet West's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.00005455779729386018'}^[17].
• Comet West's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as West^[18].
• Comet West's epoch is recorded as May 10, 1976^[19].
• Comet West's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2442833.7219778746'}^[20].

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Works and Contributions

Comet West is credited with the discovery of Richard Martin West^[3].

Why It Matters

Comet West draws 20 Wikipedia views per month (hyperbolic_comet category, ranking #2 of 8).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[21]