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rotation period

(of a celestial object) time that it takes to complete one revolution around its axis of rotation relative to the background stars
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rotation period

Summary

rotation period ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rotation period's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11962370k[2].
  • rotation period's subclass of is recorded as time interval[3].
  • rotation period's subclass of is recorded as period[4].
  • rotation period's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 18839[5].
  • rotation period's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/037nsg[6].
  • rotation period's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX475959[7].
  • rotation period's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2147[8].
  • rotation period's ISQ dimension is recorded as \mathsf{T}[9].
  • rotation period's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 9411552[10].
  • rotation period's Wolfram Language quantity ID is recorded as RotationPeriod[11].
  • rotation period's MetaSat ID is recorded as rotationPeriod[12].
  • rotation period's Bing entity ID is recorded as 0e94f6bf-549c-8523-a3db-d27cd8ba5b4b[13].
  • rotation period's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C9411552[14].
  • rotation period's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as period-vrashcheniia-e4fc20[15].

Why It Matters

rotation period ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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