216P/LINEAR

Summary

216P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 216P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 216P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 216P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 216P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 216P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 216P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 216P/2009 D1^[7].
• 216P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 216P/2001 CV8^[8].
• 216P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2001-02-01T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 216P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000331^[10].
• 216P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4447423690069113'}^[11].
• 216P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+7.6'}^[12].
• 216P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.040930760969008'}^[13].
• 216P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2796.890126912331'}^[14].
• 216P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+359.9149469432366'}^[15].
• 216P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.884943013116831'}^[16].
• 216P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.612741772227259'}^[17].
• 216P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.157144254006404'}^[18].
• 216P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+151.684800292841'}^[19].
• 216P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+236.710440363747'}^[20].
• 216P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121lbdfw^[21].
• 216P/LINEAR's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet216PLINEAR"]^[22].
• 216P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as February 26, 2006^[23].
• 216P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2454750.353755828'}^[24].

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Works and Contributions

216P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

216P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]