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217P/LINEAR

Summary

217P/LINEAR is a periodic comet[1]. 217P/LINEAR draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 217P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[3].
  • 217P/LINEAR's image is recorded as Comet LINEAR 090818.jpg[4].
  • 217P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[5].
  • 217P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[6].
  • 217P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object[7].
  • 217P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • 217P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 217P/2009 F3[9].
  • 217P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 217P/2001 MD7[10].
  • 217P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2001-06-21T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 217P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000345[12].
  • 217P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6888524860610463'}[13].
  • 217P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.5'}[14].
  • 217P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.86187024801161'}[15].
  • 217P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2866.922628435055'}[16].
  • 217P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+125.5396376085153'}[17].
  • 217P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.949526484382122'}[18].
  • 217P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.670167621912691'}[19].
  • 217P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.228885346851553'}[20].
  • 217P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+246.9392946917731'}[21].
  • 217P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+150.3482993663735'}[22].
  • 217P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122ysd6d[23].
  • 217P/LINEAR's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Comet", "Comet217PLINEAR"][24].
  • 217P/LINEAR's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 217P[25].
  • 217P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as December 19, 2012[26].
  • 217P/LINEAR's Bing entity ID is recorded as a237e370-2ce1-7726-169b-5b2af5c6d69f[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

217P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[3].

Why It Matters

217P/LINEAR draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #29 of 183).[2] 217P/LINEAR has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 217P/LINEAR. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/217p-linear
MLA “217P/LINEAR.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/217p-linear.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_217p-linear_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{217P/LINEAR}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/217p-linear}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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