160P/LINEAR

Summary

160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 160P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 160P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 160P/LINEAR's image is recorded as 160P 2019-10-31 image ZTF-sso-286-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png^[4].
• 160P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 160P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 160P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 160P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 160P/2004 NL21^[8].
• 160P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-07-15T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 160P/LINEAR's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bmjtd^[10].
• 160P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000511^[11].
• 160P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4790971487339167'}^[12].
• 160P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.7'}^[13].
• 160P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+17.27621470826743'}^[14].
• 160P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2886.219650470302'}^[15].
• 160P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+337.0020906796049'}^[16].
• 160P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.967229288813575'}^[17].
• 160P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.867917529457842'}^[18].
• 160P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.066541048169307'}^[19].
• 160P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+18.19829512986031'}^[20].
• 160P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.05948310176440832'}^[21].
• 160P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as September 19, 2012^[22].
• 160P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456189.0231075077'}^[23].

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Works and Contributions

160P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

160P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2] 160P/LINEAR has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24]