187P/LINEAR

Summary

187P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 187P/LINEAR has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]

Key Facts

• 187P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 187P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 187P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 187P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 187P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 187P/2007 E3^[7].
• 187P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 187P/1999 J5^[8].
• 187P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1999-05-12T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 187P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000262^[10].
• 187P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1731823615852687'}^[11].
• 187P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+7.3'}^[12].
• 187P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+13.65508613815119'}^[13].
• 187P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3479.201145193197'}^[14].
• 187P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+111.7360928195993'}^[15].
• 187P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.493527533923177'}^[16].
• 187P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.271727244096422'}^[17].
• 187P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.715327823749933'}^[18].
• 187P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+134.7358165923954'}^[19].
• 187P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+86.85610092326647'}^[20].
• 187P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1212gvr7^[21].
• 187P/LINEAR's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet187PLINEAR"]^[22].
• 187P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as February 9, 2011^[23].
• 187P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2454762.0837616688'}^[24].

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Works and Contributions

187P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

187P/LINEAR has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]