252P/LINEAR

Summary

252P/LINEAR is a periodic comet^[1]. 252P/LINEAR draws 11 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #24 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 252P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 252P/LINEAR's image is recorded as Comet 252P LINEAR closeup in Ophiucus.jpg^[4].
• 252P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 252P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 252P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[7].
• 252P/LINEAR's Commons category is recorded as 252P/LINEAR^[8].
• 252P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 252P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 252P/2011 L5^[10].
• 252P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 252P/2000 G1^[11].
• 252P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2000-04-07T00:00:00Z^[12].
• 252P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000298^[13].
• 252P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6730850153945767'}^[14].
• 252P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+16.4'}^[15].
• 252P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+10.42219597127401'}^[16].
• 252P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1942.518729595199'}^[17].
• 252P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+190.9484957698451'}^[18].
• 252P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.046804058107118'}^[19].
• 252P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.097562214462405'}^[20].
• 252P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.9960459017518297'}^[21].
• 252P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+343.3104746438897'}^[22].
• 252P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+16.6305339416182'}^[23].
• 252P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/120rrrx1^[24].
• 252P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as June 13, 2016^[25].
• 252P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2457462.763545376'}^[26].

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Works and Contributions

252P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

252P/LINEAR draws 11 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #24 of 183).^[2] 252P/LINEAR has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27]