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GW170608

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GW170608

Summary

GW170608 is a gravitational wave event[1]. GW170608 draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (gravitational_wave_event category, ranking #8 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • GW170608's image is recorded as GW170608 spectrograms.png[3].
  • GW170608's instance of is recorded as gravitational wave event[4].
  • GW170608's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory[5].
  • GW170608's follows is recorded as GW170104[6].
  • GW170608's followed by is recorded as GW170814[7].
  • GW170608's catalog code is recorded as GW170608[8].
  • GW170608's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2017-06-08T00:00:00Z[9].
  • GW170608's described at URL is recorded as https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW170608/[10].
  • GW170608's redshift is recorded as {'amount': '+0.07'}[11].
  • GW170608's distance from Earth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q3773454', 'amount': '+340'}[12].
  • GW170608's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11f2m03mlk[13].

Why It Matters

GW170608 draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (gravitational_wave_event category, ranking #8 of 9).[2] GW170608 has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ligo.org. ligo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). GW170608. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/gw170608
MLA “GW170608.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/gw170608.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gw170608_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{GW170608}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gw170608}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): GW170608 — https://4ort.xyz/entity/gw170608 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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