P/2012 O2 (McNaught)

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P/2012 O2 (McNaught)

Summary

P/2012 O2 (McNaught) is a comet[1].

Key Facts

  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught) is credited with the discovery of Robert H. McNaught[2].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s instance of is recorded as comet[3].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[5].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2012-07-20T00:00:00Z[6].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003200[7].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.5382710102096243'}[8].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+17.3'}[9].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+24.52745486680309'}[10].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+2491.765252562438'}[11].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+120.8135816327748'}[12].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.596989187297545'}[13].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+5.53314419085729'}[14].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.6608341837378'}[15].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+183.0473914904109'}[16].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+5.186765158058672'}[17].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6gbgc2r[18].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s epoch is recorded as July 31, 2012[19].
  • P/2012 O2 (McNaught)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2456103.599441128'}[20].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include comet[3] and Jupiter-family comet[4].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

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