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69P/Taylor

comet
Thing Periodic Comet Q726757

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
17.3[13]
Apoapsis
5.497435798091087[18]
Argument of periapsis
343.6660523745314[20]
Discoverer or inventor
Charles Clement Jennings Taylor[2]
Epoch
June 18, 2016
Longitude of ascending node
104.8533322271144[16]
Mean anomaly
231.0369566941083[21]
Orbital eccentricity
0.4136076348447155[12]
Orbital inclination
22.04104309478001[14]
Orbital period
2801.207967329629[15]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
2.280444941347589[19]
Provisional designation
1990 XXX, 1977a, 69P/1976 X1, 1916 I, 69P/1915 W1, 1915e[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.888940369719338[17]
Time of discovery or invention
November 24, 1915[11]
Time of periapsis
2458560.978623332
🏷️ Also known as
en 69P/Taylor ja テイラー彗星 ru 69P/Тэйлора zh 69P/泰勒彗星
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85132911
Freebase ID
/m/0281lqg
J9U entity ID
987007563355505171
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000092
Minor Planet Center body ID
69P
NAIF ID
1000092

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Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Epoch 1
June 18, 2016
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

69P/Taylor 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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