Tethys

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Tethys

Summary

Tethys is a moon of Saturn[1]. Tethys ranks in the top 9% of moon_of_saturn entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (549 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tethys is credited with the discovery of Giovanni Domenico Cassini[3].
  • Tethys's image is recorded as PIA18317-SaturnMoon-Tethys-Cassini-20150411.jpg[4].
  • Tethys's instance of is recorded as moon of Saturn[5].
  • Tethys's instance of is recorded as regular moon[6].
  • Tethys is named after Tethys[7].
  • Tethys's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2007003335[8].
  • Tethys's Commons category is recorded as Tethys[9].
  • Tethys's parent astronomical body is recorded as Saturn[10].
  • Tethys's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1684-03-21T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Tethys's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1684-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Tethys's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0lhx8[13].
  • Tethys's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tethys (moon)[14].
  • Tethys's spoken text audio is recorded as Tethys (moon).ogg[15].
  • Tethys's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0001'}[16].
  • Tethys's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.2'}[17].
  • Tethys's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0065789[18].
  • Tethys's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[19].
  • Tethys's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Tethys[20].
  • Tethys's topic has template is recorded as Template:GeoTemplate/tethys[21].
  • Tethys's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7031593[22].
  • Tethys's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+1.12'}[23].
  • Tethys's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14754979', 'amount': '+617.39'}[24].
  • Tethys's temperature is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11579', 'amount': '+86'}[25].
  • Tethys's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+531.1'}[26].
  • Tethys's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1.887802'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Tethys is credited with the discovery of Giovanni Domenico Cassini[3]. Things named for Tethys include Tethys Nunataks[28], a nunatak[29].

Why It Matters

Tethys ranks in the top 9% of moon_of_saturn entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (549 views/month).[2] Tethys has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Tethys is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Tethys include Tethys Nunataks[28], a nunatak[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . A Short History of Astronomy. 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] . A Short History of Astronomy. 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] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . NASA FACTS. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . NASA FACTS. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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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