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planetesimal

solid objects thought to exist in protoplanetary disks and in debris disks
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Summary

planetesimal is an astronomical object type[1]. planetesimal draws 2,179 Wikipedia views per month (astronomical object type category, ranking #61 of 289).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin[3], Viktor Safronov[4]
  • Influenced by: accretion[5]
  • Follows: circumstellar disk[6]
  • Subclass of: small Solar System body[7]
  • Commons category: Planetesimals[8]
  • Start time: 1904[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Planetesimals[10]
  • Exact match: https://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001148/[11]

Why It Matters

planetesimal has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] planetesimal is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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