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252P/LINEAR

periodic comet and near-earth object
Thing Periodic Comet Q3598274

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet, near-Earth object[3][4]
Absolute magnitude
16.4[10]
Apoapsis
5.097562214462405[15]
Argument of periapsis
343.3104746438897[17]
Discoverer or inventor
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2]
Epoch
June 13, 2016[19]
Longitude of ascending node
190.9484957698451[13]
Mean anomaly
16.6305339416182[18]
Orbital eccentricity
0.6730850153945767[9]
Orbital inclination
10.42219597127401[11]
Orbital period
1942.518729595199[12]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[5]
Periapsis
0.9960459017518297[16]
Provisional designation
252P/2011 L5, 252P/2000 G1[6][7]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.046804058107118[14]
Time of discovery or invention
April 7, 2000[8]
Time of periapsis
2457462.763545376[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en 252P/LINEAR it C/2000 G1 LINEAR, P/2000 G1 LINEAR, P/2011 L5 LINEAR, LINEAR 12 nl Comet 252P/LINEAR
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Comet 252P LINEAR closeup in Ophiucus.jpg ↗
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/120rrrx1
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
1000298

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
near-Earth object, periodic comet, Jupiter-family comet
Discoverer or inventor 1
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
Epoch 1
June 13, 2016
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
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Summary

252P/LINEAR is a periodic comet[1].

References

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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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