209P/LINEAR

Summary

209P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 209P/LINEAR draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 209P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 209P/LINEAR's image is recorded as Comet 209P LINEAR in Ursa Major.jpg^[4].
• 209P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 209P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 209P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[7].
• 209P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 209P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 209P/2008 X2^[9].
• 209P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 209P/2004 CB^[10].
• 209P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-02-03T00:00:00Z^[11].
• 209P/LINEAR's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dd393s^[12].
• 209P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000487^[13].
• 209P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6814449123043993'}^[14].
• 209P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+18.1'}^[15].
• 209P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+21.33781492018594'}^[16].
• 209P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1850.244969946833'}^[17].
• 209P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+62.86852531769187'}^[18].
• 209P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.949537147729366'}^[19].
• 209P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.959484230702373'}^[20].
• 209P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.9395900647563603'}^[21].
• 209P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+152.634858557211'}^[22].
• 209P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+225.5831485614881'}^[23].
• 209P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as June 9, 2012^[24].
• 209P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456778.344731251'}^[25].

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Works and Contributions

209P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

209P/LINEAR draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).^[2] 209P/LINEAR has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[26]