249P/LINEAR

Summary

249P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 249P/LINEAR draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 249P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 249P/LINEAR's image is recorded as 249P 2020-07-31 image ZTF-sso-611-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png^[4].
• 249P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 249P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 249P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[7].
• 249P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 249P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 249P/2011 A4^[9].
• 249P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 249P/2006 U1^[10].
• 249P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2006-10-19T00:00:00Z^[11].
• 249P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1002424^[12].
• 249P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.8186684336991458'}^[13].
• 249P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+18.4'}^[14].
• 249P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+8.399343858236897'}^[15].
• 249P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1684.191394461906'}^[16].
• 249P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+239.8520444866566'}^[17].
• 249P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.770311966971261'}^[18].
• 249P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.038278925829623'}^[19].
• 249P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.5023450081128992'}^[20].
• 249P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+64.81035770819307'}^[21].
• 249P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+255.3067582162348'}^[22].
• 249P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1222j73m^[23].
• 249P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as July 25, 2014^[24].
• 249P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2457353.287380196'}^[25].

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Works and Contributions

249P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

249P/LINEAR draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2]