159P/LONEOS

Summary

159P/LONEOS is a periodic comet^[1]. 159P/LONEOS draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 159P/LONEOS is credited with the discovery of Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search^[3].
• 159P/LONEOS's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 159P/LONEOS's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 159P/LONEOS's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 159P/LONEOS's provisional designation is recorded as 159P/2003 UD16^[7].
• 159P/LONEOS's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2003-10-16T00:00:00Z^[8].
• 159P/LONEOS's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bmjnj^[9].
• 159P/LONEOS's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000470^[10].
• 159P/LONEOS's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.3820766227646656'}^[11].
• 159P/LONEOS's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.9'}^[12].
• 159P/LONEOS's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+23.46243119592039'}^[13].
• 159P/LONEOS's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+5181.489912304136'}^[14].
• 159P/LONEOS's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+55.06434940576393'}^[15].
• 159P/LONEOS's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.860088210581726'}^[16].
• 159P/LONEOS's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+8.099090923183825'}^[17].
• 159P/LONEOS's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.621085497979628'}^[18].
• 159P/LONEOS's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.872797978681144'}^[19].
• 159P/LONEOS's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+281.4067922106627'}^[20].
• 159P/LONEOS's epoch is recorded as April 18, 2015^[21].
• 159P/LONEOS's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2458261.694203711'}^[22].

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Works and Contributions

159P/LONEOS is credited with the discovery of Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search^[3].

Why It Matters

159P/LONEOS draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).^[2] 159P/LONEOS has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[23]