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261P/Larson

comet
Thing periodic_comet Q9131464

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
7.4[9]
Apoapsis
4.999101922238068[14]
Argument of periapsis
58.97020034635978[16]
Discoverer or inventor
Stephen M. Larson[2]
Epoch
February 10, 2014[18]
Longitude of ascending node
298.4257315746451[12]
Mean anomaly
72.09552658488178[17]
Orbital eccentricity
0.3918769065465186[8]
Orbital inclination
6.336546274678119[10]
Orbital period
2486.194892382825[11]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
2.184150991472072[15]
Provisional designation
261P/2012 K4, 261P/2005 N3[5][6]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.59162645685507[13]
Time of discovery or invention
June 7, 2005[7]
Time of periapsis
2456200.6013056696[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en 261P/Larson
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
261P 2019-08-02 image ZTF-sso-1601-zg-fov-5.6arcmin.png ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/124xvbw3w
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1001652
Minor Planet Center body ID
261P

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Stephen M. Larson
Epoch 1
February 10, 2014
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

261P/Larson 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] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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