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85D/Boethin

Summary

85D/Boethin is a periodic comet[1]. 85D/Boethin draws 11 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #23 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 85D/Boethin is credited with the discovery of Leo Boethin[3].
  • 85D/Boethin's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 85D/Boethin's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 85D/Boethin's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[6].
  • 85D/Boethin's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[7].
  • 85D/Boethin's provisional designation is recorded as 85D/1985 T2[8].
  • 85D/Boethin's provisional designation is recorded as 1986 I[9].
  • 85D/Boethin's provisional designation is recorded as 85D/1975 A1[10].
  • 85D/Boethin's provisional designation is recorded as 1975 I[11].
  • 85D/Boethin's provisional designation is recorded as 1975a[12].
  • 85D/Boethin's provisional designation is recorded as 1985n[13].
  • 85D/Boethin's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1975-01-04T00:00:00Z[14].
  • 85D/Boethin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06z3d4[15].
  • 85D/Boethin's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000004[16].
  • 85D/Boethin's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.7811606261503804'}[17].
  • 85D/Boethin's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.295294591030268'}[18].
  • 85D/Boethin's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+4312.284311523383'}[19].
  • 85D/Boethin's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+359.3961137217372'}[20].
  • 85D/Boethin's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.184887126567299'}[21].
  • 85D/Boethin's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.235116800875655'}[22].
  • 85D/Boethin's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.134657452258941'}[23].
  • 85D/Boethin's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+37.61838460810365'}[24].
  • 85D/Boethin's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+313.1875107575854'}[25].
  • 85D/Boethin's NAIF ID is recorded as 1000004[26].
  • 85D/Boethin's epoch is recorded as June 1, 2007[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

85D/Boethin is credited with the discovery of Leo Boethin[3].

Why It Matters

85D/Boethin draws 11 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #23 of 183).[2] 85D/Boethin has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] 85D/Boethin is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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