Home › Entities › non_periodic_comet › Comet Kohoutek

Comet Kohoutek

long-period comet
Thing non_periodic_comet Q31428
Comet Kohoutek
NASA · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
non-periodic comet, hyperbolic comet[2]
Absolute magnitude
+5.8[6]
Argument of periapsis
+37.7976[10]
Discoverer or inventor
Luboš Kohoutek[1]
Epoch
December 6, 1973[12]
Longitude of ascending node
+258.4894909953879[8]
Mean anomaly
-0.000008977059270580618[11]
Orbital eccentricity
+1.0000078[5]
Orbital inclination
+14.30414[7]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[3]
Periapsis
+0.1424250[9]
Time of discovery or invention
March 7, 1973[4]
Time of periapsis
+2442044.930683474[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en 1973f en Comet Kohoutek en C/1973 E1 en 1973 XII ar مذنب كوهوتك cs Kohoutkova kometa cs C/1973 E1 de Komet Kohoutek de Kohoutek el Κομήτης Κόχουτεκ en-gb C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) es 1973f es 1973 XII es C/1973 E1 fa دنباله‌دار کوهوتک fi Kohoutekin komeetta fr 1973f fr 1973 XII fr Comète Kohoutek he קוהוטק
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85072796
Freebase ID
/m/0195xh
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cometa-kohoutek
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0035831
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Kohoutek
Harper's tag
kohoutek-comet
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1001152
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007546088705171
Yale LUX ID
place/f0dbee28-5fd2-4569-bd28-079e06325b54

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

🔗 Connections
Discoverer or inventor 1
Luboš Kohoutek
Instance of 1
non-periodic comet
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
← FactGrid item ID 1
Rode
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Related Entities

Luboš Kohoutek

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Comet Kohoutek. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/comet-kohoutek
MLA “Comet Kohoutek.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 2 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/comet-kohoutek.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_comet-kohoutek_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Comet Kohoutek}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/comet-kohoutek}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-02}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Comet Kohoutek — https://4ort.xyz/entity/comet-kohoutek (retrieved 2026-11-02)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/comet-kohoutek · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Longitude of ascending node → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+258.4894909953879'}
    Local thumb → —
    Time of periapsis → {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2442044.930683474'}
    Parent astronomical body → Sun
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: kohoutek-comet, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289945648|kohoutek comet (#289945648)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.