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C/2016 A8 LINEAR

Summary

C/2016 A8 LINEAR is a periodic comet[1].

Key Facts

  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research[2].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[3].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's instance of is recorded as non-periodic comet[4].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1003440[5].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.9463451853440923'}[6].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+10.4'}[7].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+148.2118364728456'}[8].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+75825.15140702574'}[9].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+111.2321643992461'}[10].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+35.05983809493279'}[11].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+68.23854707501582'}[12].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+1.881129114849751'}[13].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+130.2653014910948'}[14].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+359.9066134305596'}[15].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11cs16vq_j[16].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's epoch is recorded as August 11, 2016[17].
  • C/2016 A8 LINEAR's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2457631.1695854645'}[18].

Body

Works and Contributions

C/2016 A8 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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