237P/LINEAR

Summary

237P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 237P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 237P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 237P/LINEAR's image is recorded as 237P 2023-04-21 image ZTF-sso-335-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png^[4].
• 237P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 237P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 237P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 237P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 237P/2010 L2^[8].
• 237P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 237P/2002 LN13^[9].
• 237P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2003-03-14T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 237P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003096^[11].
• 237P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4343875257655548'}^[12].
• 237P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.6'}^[13].
• 237P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+14.01473040848824'}^[14].
• 237P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2404.253667664769'}^[15].
• 237P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+245.3807696934699'}^[16].
• 237P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.512270102809421'}^[17].
• 237P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.037956422589136'}^[18].
• 237P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.986583783029706'}^[19].
• 237P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+25.23463109086077'}^[20].
• 237P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+278.309681810078'}^[21].
• 237P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/120rrg5l^[22].
• 237P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as November 15, 2021^[23].
• 237P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2460079.0673531136'}^[24].

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Works and Contributions

237P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

237P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]