Q526278
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Kreutz Sungrazer comet discovered in November 2011 by Terry Lovejoy
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- non-periodic comet
- Part of
- Kreutz sungrazers
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 254929.0293747837
- Image
- Iss030e015472 Edit.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-11-27
- Commons category
- C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
- discoverer or inventor
- Terry Lovejoy
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 78.68293963959538
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.99992941527
- provisional designation
- C/2011 W3
- orbital inclination
- 134.3558107
- absolute magnitude
- 15.3
- argument of periapsis
- 53.5092124
- mean anomaly
- 359.9858617465
- periapsis
- 0.00555381415
- longitude of ascending node
- 326.3691470
- epoch
- December 6, 2011
- time of periapsis
- 2455911.511809000
- apoapsis
- 157.3603254650395
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