Leonids

meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle
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Leonids
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Leonids

Summary

Leonids is a meteor shower[1]. Leonids ranks in the top 5% of meteor_shower entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (477 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Leonids's image is recorded as 1966 leonids big.gif[3].
  • Leonids's instance of is recorded as meteor shower[4].
  • Leonids's constellation is recorded as Leo[5].
  • Leonids's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 236574433[6].
  • Leonids's GND ID is recorded as 4714551-1[7].
  • Leonids's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Leonid symbol.png[8].
  • Leonids's Commons category is recorded as Leonids[9].
  • Leonids's parent astronomical body is recorded as 55P/Tempel–Tuttle[10].
  • Leonids's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04nm8[11].
  • Leonids's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as November 18[12].
  • Leonids's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0036960[13].
  • Leonids's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[14].
  • Leonids's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • Leonids's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Leonid-meteor[16].
  • Leonids's speed is recorded as {'unit': 'Q3674704', 'amount': '+72'}[17].
  • Leonids's has part is recorded as Population index[18].
  • Leonids's has part is recorded as zenithal hourly rate[19].
  • Leonids's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Leonidene[20].
  • Leonids's Larousse ID is recorded as divers/Léonides/129504[21].
  • Leonids's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775848929[22].
  • Leonids's Lex ID is recorded as Leoniderne[23].
  • Leonids's KBpedia ID is recorded as LeonidMeteorShower[24].
  • Leonids's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as leonidy-385339[25].
  • Leonids's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as els-leonids[26].

Why It Matters

Leonids ranks in the top 5% of meteor_shower entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (477 views/month).[2] Leonids has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Leonids is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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