251P/LINEAR

Summary

251P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 251P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 251P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 251P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 251P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 251P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 251P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 251P/2011 J1^[7].
• 251P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 251P/2004 HC18^[8].
• 251P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-04-17T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 251P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000495^[10].
• 251P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5097837984601545'}^[11].
• 251P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.5'}^[12].
• 251P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+23.50977787668653'}^[13].
• 251P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2382.843502493428'}^[14].
• 251P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+219.5544176119033'}^[15].
• 251P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.491387576606857'}^[16].
• 251P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.271240397306095'}^[17].
• 251P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.71153475590762'}^[18].
• 251P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+30.87910690654265'}^[19].
• 251P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+96.41550122316414'}^[20].
• 251P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122mf9l8^[21].
• 251P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as March 19, 2006^[22].
• 251P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2453175.324859363'}^[23].

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Works and Contributions

251P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

251P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #33 of 183).^[2]