Comet Hyakutake

bright comet discovered in 1996
Thing non_periodic_comet Q16741
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Comet Hyakutake

Summary

Comet Hyakutake is a non-periodic comet[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of non_periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (211 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Comet Hyakutake is credited with the discovery of Yuji Hyakutake[3].
  • Comet Hyakutake's image is recorded as Hyakutake.jpg[4].
  • Comet Hyakutake's instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[5].
  • Comet Hyakutake's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Hayato[6].
  • Comet Hyakutake's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2007006982[7].
  • Comet Hyakutake's Commons category is recorded as Comet Hyakutake[8].
  • Comet Hyakutake's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[9].
  • Comet Hyakutake's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1996-01-30T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Comet Hyakutake's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/011v3f[11].
  • Comet Hyakutake's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000131[12].
  • Comet Hyakutake's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.9998916470450123'}[13].
  • Comet Hyakutake's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Comet-Hyakutake[14].
  • Comet Hyakutake's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+7.4'}[15].
  • Comet Hyakutake's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+124.9220493922234'}[16].
  • Comet Hyakutake's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+70000'}[17].
  • Comet Hyakutake's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+35773534.62343365'}[18].
  • Comet Hyakutake's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+6.273'}[19].
  • Comet Hyakutake's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+188.045131992156'}[20].
  • Comet Hyakutake's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2279.99'}[21].
  • Comet Hyakutake's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2124.755444393889'}[22].
  • Comet Hyakutake's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4559.75'}[23].
  • Comet Hyakutake's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4249.280665256751'}[24].
  • Comet Hyakutake's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.2302235310262354'}[25].
  • Comet Hyakutake's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+130.1751209780967'}[26].
  • Comet Hyakutake's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+359.9995230582502'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Comet Hyakutake is credited with the discovery of Yuji Hyakutake[3].

Why It Matters

Comet Hyakutake ranks in the top 4% of non_periodic_comet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (211 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 16 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. [3] . cbat.eps.harvard.edu. cbat.eps.harvard.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . cbat.eps.harvard.edu. cbat.eps.harvard.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . cbat.eps.harvard.edu. cbat.eps.harvard.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . 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] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.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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