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218P/LINEAR

Summary

218P/LINEAR is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 218P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2].
  • 218P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • 218P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[4].
  • 218P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[5].
  • 218P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 218P/2009 F7[6].
  • 218P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 218P/2003 H4[7].
  • 218P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as April 29, 2003[8].
  • 218P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4910903445834557'}[9].
  • 218P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.5'}[10].
  • 218P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+18.17407222489118'}[11].
  • 218P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2231.737888567523'}[12].
  • 218P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+226.6109304399852'}[13].
  • 218P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.342180029181443'}[14].
  • 218P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.983492371372101'}[15].
  • 218P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.700867686990784'}[16].
  • 218P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.78458153982267'}[17].
  • 218P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+67.33157583269629'}[18].
  • 218P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as August 14, 2010[19].
  • 218P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2455005.0932531036'}[20].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include periodic comet[3] and Jupiter-family comet[4].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . 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.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · C messier · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Apoapsis → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.983492371372101'}
    Image → 218P 2026-03-06 image ZTF-sso-1326-zr-size-6.4arcmin.png
    Periapsis → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.700867686990784'}
    Orbital eccentricity → {'amount': '+0.4910903445834557'}
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: 218P 2026-03-06 image ZTF-sso-1326-zr-size-6.4arcmin.png"
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