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P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)

Summary

P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS) is a comet[1].

Key Facts

  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s instance of is recorded as comet[2].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[3].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[4].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003217[5].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.506568734468892'}[6].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+12.1'}[7].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+10.53447533300739'}[8].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+7281.498305346991'}[9].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+186.8630689771828'}[10].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+7.352158886121392'}[11].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+11.07653270867812'}[12].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.62778506356466'}[13].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+229.534875779256'}[14].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+358.9978832463022'}[15].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6g50j58[16].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s epoch is recorded as November 14, 2012[17].
  • P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)'s time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2456265.769198455'}[18].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include comet[2] and Jupiter-family comet[3].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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