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285P/LINEAR

Summary

285P/LINEAR is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 285P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2].
  • 285P/LINEAR's image is recorded as 285P 2022-08-18 image ZTF-sso-538-zr-fov-4.0arcmin.png[3].
  • 285P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 285P/LINEAR's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[5].
  • 285P/LINEAR's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 285P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 285P/2013 K2[7].
  • 285P/LINEAR's provisional designation is recorded as 285P/2003 U2[8].
  • 285P/LINEAR's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2003-10-19T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 285P/LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000462[10].
  • 285P/LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.6178742060957603'}[11].
  • 285P/LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+13.6'}[12].
  • 285P/LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+25.02329038150431'}[13].
  • 285P/LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+3497.26914766355'}[14].
  • 285P/LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+185.4832607036276'}[15].
  • 285P/LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+4.509071132148888'}[16].
  • 285P/LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+7.295109878154693'}[17].
  • 285P/LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.723032386143083'}[18].
  • 285P/LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+178.4014458529177'}[19].
  • 285P/LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+251.6213374848126'}[20].
  • 285P/LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11cmg4tz5r[21].
  • 285P/LINEAR's epoch is recorded as February 25, 2020[22].
  • 285P/LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2459957.359312998'}[23].

Body

Works and Contributions

285P/LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). 285P/LINEAR. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/285p-linear
MLA “285P/LINEAR.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/285p-linear.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_285p-linear_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{285P/LINEAR}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/285p-linear}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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