Orionids

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Orionids

Summary

Orionids is a meteor shower[1]. Orionids draws 42 Wikipedia views per month (meteor_shower category, ranking #9 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • Orionids is credited with the discovery of Alexander Stewart Herschel[3].
  • Orionids's image is recorded as Multi colored Orionid.jpg[4].
  • Orionids's instance of is recorded as meteor shower[5].
  • Orionids's constellation is recorded as Orion[6].
  • Orionids's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Orionid symbol.png[7].
  • Orionids's Commons category is recorded as Orionids[8].
  • Orionids's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[9].
  • Orionids's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1839-10-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Orionids's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025y5nx[11].
  • Orionids's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as October 21[12].
  • Orionids's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0047649[13].
  • Orionids's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[14].
  • Orionids's speed is recorded as {'unit': 'Q3674704', 'amount': '+66'}[15].
  • Orionids's has part is recorded as zenithal hourly rate[16].
  • Orionids's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1hcnfpq_b[17].
  • Orionids's Treccani ID is recorded as orionidi[18].
  • Orionids's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Orionidene[19].
  • Orionids's declination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15'}[20].
  • Orionids's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3951783[21].
  • Orionids's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as orionidy-78c79f[22].
  • Orionids's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as els-orionids[23].

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Works and Contributions

Orionids is credited with the discovery of Alexander Stewart Herschel[3].

Why It Matters

Orionids draws 42 Wikipedia views per month (meteor_shower category, ranking #9 of 37).[2] Orionids has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Orionids is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . encyklopedia.pwn.pl. encyklopedia.pwn.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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