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16P/Brooks

comet
Thing Periodic Comet Q1906259
16P/Brooks
E.E. Barnard · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
12.2
Apoapsis
5.294553843943523
Argument of periapsis
220.1660459205524
Discoverer or inventor
William Robert Brooks[2]
Epoch
June 12, 2016
Longitude of ascending node
159.3430174044605
Mean anomaly
115.7852617008117
Orbital eccentricity
0.5689747294286532
Orbital inclination
4.30689945969963
Orbital period
2264.219663871298
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
1.454508132180911
Provisional designation
1994 XXIII, 1987m, 1980f, 1974 I, 1973j, 1960 VI, 1953b, 1946e, 1939g, 1932 VIII, 1925 IX, 1911 I, 1903d, 16P/1896 M1, 1896c, 16P/1889 N1, 1889d[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.374530988062217
Time of discovery or invention
July 7, 1889[22]
Time of periapsis
2456823.26870464
🏷️ Also known as
en 16P/Brooks 2 en Brooks 2 en Comet Brooks 2 en 16P en 16P/Brooks el 16P/Brooks 2 el 16P/Μπρουκς el Κομήτης Μπρους 2 it 1889 V; 1896 VI; 1903 V; 1911 I; 1925 IX; 1932 VIII; 1939 VII; 1946 IV; 1953 V; 1960 VI; 1974 I; 1980 IX; 1987 XXIV; 1994 XXIII ja ブルックス第2彗星 ru 16P/Брукса zh 布魯克斯彗星
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85017205
Freebase ID
/m/02x8t2
J9U entity ID
987007292555405171
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000008
Minor Planet Center body ID
16P
NAIF ID
1000008
SpaceReference.org celestial object ID
asteroid/16p-brooks-2

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Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
William Robert Brooks
Epoch 1
June 12, 2016
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

16P/Brooks is a periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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