CometData

For general access to the Wolfram Knowledgebase, use entities of type Comet instead of CometData.

CometData[entity,property]

gives the value of the specified property for the comet entity.

CometData[{entity1,entity2,…},property]

gives a list of property values for the specified comet entities.

CometData[entity,property,annotation]

gives the specified annotation associated with the given property.

Details

  • CometData[] gives a list of all comet entities.
  • CometData["Properties"] gives a list of available properties.
  • The specified entity in CometData can be an Entity, EntityClass, entity canonical name, or list thereof.
  • The specified property can be an EntityProperty, EntityPropertyClass, property canonical name, or list of properties.
  • Properties that do not apply or are not known in a particular case are indicated by Missing[…].
  • Properties include:
  • "Age"age
    "AlphanumericName"alphanumeric name
    "AlternateNames"alternate names
    "Altitude"altitude
    "AngularDiameterFromEarth"angular diameter as seen from Earth
    "AngularRadiusFromEarth"angular radius as seen from Earth
    "Aphelion"largest distance from the Sun
    "Apoapsis"largest distance from orbit center
    "ApoapsisTime"next apoapsis time
    "ApoapsisTimeLast"last apoapsis time
    "ApparentAltitude"apparent altitude
    "ApparentMagnitude"apparent magnitude
    "AscendingNodeLongitude"longitude of ascending node
    "AverageDistanceFromEarth"average distance from Earth
    "AverageOrbitDistance"average orbit distance
    "AverageOrbitVelocity"average orbit velocity
    "AverageVelocityAroundSun"average heliocentric velocity
    "Azimuth"azimuth
    "BooleanRise"above the horizon
    "Classes"classes
    "Constellation"constellation
    "DailyTimeAboveHorizon"daily time above horizon
    "Declination"declination
    "DestructionDate"destruction date
    "Diameter"average diameter
    "DiscoveryYear"discovery year
    "DistanceFromEarth"distance from Earth
    "DistanceFromSun"distance from Sun
    "EarthMOID"Earth minimum orbit intersection distance
    "EccentricAnomaly"eccentric anomaly
    "Eccentricity"orbital eccentricity
    "EquatorialDiameter"equatorial diameter
    "EquatorialRadius"equatorial radius
    "FarthestPlanet"farthest solar system planet
    "GalacticLatitude"galactic latitude
    "GalacticLongitude"galactic longitude
    "GeocentricEclipticLatitude"geocentric ecliptic latitude
    "GeocentricEclipticLongitude"geocentric ecliptic longitude
    "GreenwichHourAngle"Greenwich hour angle
    "HeliocentricEclipticLatitude"heliocentric ecliptic latitude
    "HeliocentricEclipticLongitude"heliocentric ecliptic longitude
    "HelioCoordinates"heliocentric XYZ coordinates
    "IAUName"IAU name
    "Inclination"orbital inclination
    "LocalHourAngle"local hour angle
    "MajorAxis"major axis
    "MeanAnomaly"mean anomaly
    "MeanMotion"mean motion
    "MinorAxis"minor axis
    "Name"name
    "NearestPlanet"nearest solar system planet
    "NuclearMagnitudeParameter"nuclear magnitude parameter
    "NuclearMagnitudeSlopeParameter"nuclear magnitude slope parameter
    "OrbitCenter"orbit center
    "OrbitCircumference"orbit circumference
    "OrbitPath"orbit path
    "OrbitPeriod"orbital period
    "OrbitRules"orbit rules
    "Periapsis"nearest distance from orbit center
    "PeriapsisArgument"argument of periapsis
    "PeriapsisLongitude"longitude of periapsis
    "PeriapsisTime"next periapsis time
    "PeriapsisTimeLast"last periapsis time
    "Perihelion"nearest distance from the Sun
    "PrimaryDesignation"primary designation
    "Radius"average radius
    "RetrogradeApparentMotionQuery"apparent direction
    "RightAscension"right ascension
    "RiseTime"rise time
    "RotationPeriod"rotation period
    "SemimajorAxis"semimajor axis
    "SemiminorAxis"semiminor axis
    "SetTime"set time
    "Shape"shape
    "SiderealHourAngle"sidereal hour angle
    "SolarDay"solar day
    "SphereOfInfluenceRadius"sphere of influence radius
    "SurfaceArea"surface area
    "TotalMagnitudeParameter"total magnitude parameter
    "TotalMagnitudeSlopeParameter"total magnitude slope parameter
    "TrueAnomaly"true anomaly
    "Volume"volume
  • Some properties are available for CometData as a whole and can be given using the form CometData[property]. Such properties include:
  • "Entities"all available entities
    "EntityCount"total number of available entities
    "Classes"all available entity classes
    "EntityClassCount"total number of available entity classes
    "SampleEntities"list of sample entities
    "SampleEntityClasses"list of sample entity classes
    "EntityCanonicalNames"list of all entity canonical names
    "PropertyCanonicalNames"list of all property canonical names
    "EntityClassCanonicalNames"list of all entity class canonical names
    "RandomEntities"pseudorandom sample entities
    {"RandomEntities",n}n pseudorandom entities
    "RandomEntityClasses"pseudorandom sample entity classes
    {"RandomEntityClasses",n}n pseudorandom entity classes
  • The following annotations can be used in the third argument of CometData[entity,property,annotation]:
  • "Qualifiers"the list of possible qualifiers for the property
    "QualifierValues"the list of possible values that can be given to each qualifier
    "DefaultQualifierValues"the list of default values for the property's qualifiers
    "Description"a brief textual description of the property
    "Definition"a detailed textual definition of the property
    "Source"source information for the property
    "Date"the date associated with the entity-property value (if any)
    "PhysicalQuantity"the physical quantity associated with the entity-property value
    "Unit"the unit associated with the entity-property value
    "EntityAssociation"an association of entities and entity-property values
    "PropertyAssociation"an association of properties and entity-property values
  • If a function is provided as an annotation, it will be used to aggregate the result data. Typical aggregation functions include:
  • Minthe minimum value
    Maxthe maximum value
    Meanthe mean value
    Commonestthe most frequently occurring value
    Medianthe median value
    Totalreturns the total
    Lengththe number of elements

Examples

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Basic Examples  (5)

Use for discovery:

Find the current distance to a comet:

Find the next periapsis time of a comet:

Get a list of available classes of comets:

Rank comets in a class by orbit period:

Scope  (2)

Date qualifiers can accept an explicit DateObject or queries that evaluate to a DateObject:

Date qualifiers can also be specified using Dated:

Location qualifiers can accept an explicit GeoPosition, location-based Entity objects, or queries that evaluate to one of these:

Neat Examples  (1)

Plot the orbits of classes of comets:

Wolfram Research (2014), CometData, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CometData.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), CometData, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CometData.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "CometData." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CometData.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). CometData. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CometData.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_cometdata, author="Wolfram Research", title="{CometData}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CometData.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-November-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_cometdata, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={CometData}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CometData.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-November-2024 ]}