Janus

moon of Saturn
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Janus
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Janus

Summary

Janus is a moon of Saturn[1]. Janus draws 229 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_saturn category, ranking #12 of 96).[2]

Key Facts

  • Janus is credited with the discovery of Audouin Dollfus[3].
  • Janus's image is recorded as Janus - Voyager 2.jpg[4].
  • Janus's instance of is recorded as moon of Saturn[5].
  • Janus's instance of is recorded as shepherd moon[6].
  • Janus's instance of is recorded as regular moon[7].
  • Janus is named after Janus[8].
  • Janus's Commons category is recorded as Janus (moon)[9].
  • Janus's parent astronomical body is recorded as Saturn[10].
  • Janus's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1966-12-15T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Janus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0152zb[12].
  • Janus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Janus (moon)[13].
  • Janus's spoken text audio is recorded as Janus (moon).ogg[14].
  • Janus's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0068'}[15].
  • Janus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0034337[16].
  • Janus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Janus-satellite-of-Saturn[17].
  • Janus's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7031568[18].
  • Janus's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.163'}[19].
  • Janus's density is recorded as {'unit': 'Q13147228', 'amount': '+0.63'}[20].
  • Janus's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14754979', 'amount': '+1.9'}[21].
  • Janus's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+0.69466'}[22].
  • Janus's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+151500'}[23].
  • Janus's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+180'}[24].
  • Janus's name is recorded as {'lang': 'und', 'text': 'Saturn X'}[25].
  • Janus's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00836475n[26].
  • Janus's NAIF ID is recorded as 610[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Janus is credited with the discovery of Audouin Dollfus[3].

Why It Matters

Janus draws 229 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_saturn category, ranking #12 of 96).[2] Janus has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Janus is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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