Phoebe

moon of Saturn
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Phoebe
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Phoebe

Summary

Phoebe is a moon of Saturn[1]. Phoebe ranks in the top 6% of moon_of_saturn entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (527 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Phoebe is credited with the discovery of William Henry Pickering[3].
  • Phoebe's image is recorded as Phoebe cassini full.jpg[4].
  • Phoebe's instance of is recorded as moon of Saturn[5].
  • Phoebe's instance of is recorded as irregular moon[6].
  • Phoebe is named after Phoebe[7].
  • Phoebe's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2005000488[8].
  • Phoebe's part of is recorded as Norse group[9].
  • Phoebe's Commons category is recorded as Phoebe[10].
  • Phoebe's parent astronomical body is recorded as Saturn[11].
  • Phoebe's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1898-08-16T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Phoebe's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01fhkh[13].
  • Phoebe's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Phoebe[14].
  • Phoebe's spoken text audio is recorded as Phoebe (moon).ogg[15].
  • Phoebe's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1562415'}[16].
  • Phoebe's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0026213[17].
  • Phoebe's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • Phoebe's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Phoebe-astronomy[19].
  • Phoebe's topic has template is recorded as Template:GeoTemplate/phoebe[20].
  • Phoebe's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.59'}[21].
  • Phoebe's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7031581[22].
  • Phoebe's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+173.04'}[23].
  • Phoebe's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+151.78'}[24].
  • Phoebe's density is recorded as {'unit': 'Q13147228', 'amount': '+1.6428'}[25].
  • Phoebe's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14754979', 'amount': '+8.289'}[26].
  • Phoebe's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+106.5'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Phoebe is credited with the discovery of William Henry Pickering[3]. Things named for Phoebe include Mount Phoebe[28], a mountain[29].

Why It Matters

Phoebe ranks in the top 6% of moon_of_saturn entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (527 views/month).[2] Phoebe has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Phoebe is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Phoebe include Mount Phoebe[28], a mountain[29].

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] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . NEOWISE: observations of the irregular satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . The Orbits of the Main Saturnian Satellites, the Saturnian System Gravity Field, and the Orientation of Saturn's Pole. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Sizes, shapes, and derived properties of the saturnian satellites after the Cassini nominal mission. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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