Perseids

prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle
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Perseids

Summary

Perseids is a meteor shower[1]. Perseids ranks in the top 8% of meteor_shower entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (292 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Perseids's video is recorded as Kurzerklärt, Perseiden - Tagesschau.webm[3].
  • Perseids's image is recorded as زخة شهب البرشاويات.jpg[4].
  • Perseids's instance of is recorded as meteor shower[5].
  • Perseids's constellation is recorded as Perseus[6].
  • Perseus is named after Perseids[7].
  • Perseids's part of is recorded as Comet Swift–Tuttle[8].
  • Perseids's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Perseid symbol.png[9].
  • Perseids's Commons category is recorded as Perseids[10].
  • Perseids's parent astronomical body is recorded as Comet Swift–Tuttle[11].
  • Perseids's time of discovery or invention is recorded as -0036-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Perseids's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01drjr[13].
  • Perseids's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as August 12[14].
  • Perseids's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 709078[15].
  • Perseids's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0050478[16].
  • Perseids's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Perseid-meteor-shower[17].
  • Perseids's BBC Things ID is recorded as ef3cd179-8b80-446e-abc9-3f64f2026a76[18].
  • Perseids's speed is recorded as {'unit': 'Q3674704', 'amount': '+59'}[19].
  • Perseids's has part is recorded as Population index[20].
  • Perseids's has part is recorded as zenithal hourly rate[21].
  • Perseids's Quora topic ID is recorded as Perseids[22].
  • Perseids's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Perseidene[23].
  • Perseids's Google Doodle is recorded as perseid-meteor-shower-2014-us[24].
  • Perseids's Google Doodle is recorded as perseid-meteor-shower-2014[25].
  • Perseids's Google Doodle is recorded as perseid-meteor-shower[26].
  • Perseids's Larousse ID is recorded as divers/Perséides/137716[27].

Why It Matters

Perseids ranks in the top 8% of meteor_shower entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (292 views/month).[2] Perseids has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Perseids is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . google.com. Retrieved . google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . google.com. Retrieved . google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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