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160P/LINEAR

Periodic comet in the Solar System
Thing periodic_comet Q3497387
160P/LINEAR
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Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet[3]
Absolute magnitude
+6.7[8]
Apoapsis
+5.867917529457842[13]
Argument of periapsis
+18.19829512986031[15]
Discoverer or inventor
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2]
Epoch
September 19, 2012[17]
Longitude of ascending node
+337.0020906796049[11]
Mean anomaly
+0.05948310176440832[16]
Orbital eccentricity
+0.4790971487339167[7]
Orbital inclination
+17.27621470826743[9]
Orbital period
+2886.219650470302[10]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[4]
Periapsis
+2.066541048169307[14]
Provisional designation
160P/2004 NL21[5]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
+3.967229288813575[12]
Time of discovery or invention
July 15, 2004[6]
Time of periapsis
+2456189.0231075077[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en 160P/LINEAR ko LINEAR 혜성 zh LINEAR彗星 zh 林肯彗星
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/0bmjtd
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000511
Minor Planet Center body ID
160P

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
Epoch 1
September 19, 2012
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · ~2026-50558-89 · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Minor Planet Center body ID → 160P
    Semi-major axis of an orbit → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.967229288813575'}
    Mean anomaly → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.05948310176440832'}
    Instance of → periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Minor Planet Center body ID: 160P"
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