256P/LINEAR

Summary

256P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet^[1]. 256P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter_family_comet category, ranking #8 of 8).^[2]

Key Facts

• 256P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 256P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[4].
• 256P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[5].
• 256P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 256P/2012 B2^[6].
• 256P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 256P/2003 HT15^[7].
• 256P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2003-04-26T00:00:00Z^[8].
• 256P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000445^[9].
• 256P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4193318280592476'}^[10].
• 256P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.0'}^[11].
• 256P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+27.63204310358778'}^[12].
• 256P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+3640.366804381862'}^[13].
• 256P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+81.43797912569475'}^[14].
• 256P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.631245596769715'}^[15].
• 256P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+6.573274279054501'}^[16].
• 256P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.689216914484929'}^[17].
• 256P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+124.1201142206344'}^[18].
• 256P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+65.51437396482409'}^[19].
• 256P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11vdhcjy2^[20].
• 256P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as January 9, 2015^[21].
• 256P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456369.0101328017'}^[22].

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Works and Contributions

256P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].

Why It Matters

256P/LINEAR draws 1 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter_family_comet category, ranking #8 of 8).^[2]