160P/LINEAR
Sign in to save160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet came to perihelion on 18 September 2012, and reached about apparent magnitude 17.
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Within Vinony's link graph, 160P/LINEAR is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to comet, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and Tempel 1.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 2004, Comets in 2012 and Comets in 2019.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Comet.name
- 160P/LINEAR
- Comet.image
- 160P 2019-10-31 image ZTF-sso-286-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png
- Comet.caption
- Comet 160P/LINEAR photographed by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 31 October 2019
- Comet.discoverer
- LINEAR
- Comet.discovery_date
- July 15, 2004
- Comet.epoch
- March 6, 2006
- Comet.perihelion
- 2.082 AU
- Comet.aphelion
- 5.878 AU
- Comet.semimajor
- 3.98 AU
- Comet.eccentricity
- 0.4768
- Comet.period
- 7.94 a
- Comet.inclination
- 17.2578°
- Comet.last_p
- December 2, 2019September 18, 2012October 12, 2004
- Comet.next_p
- 2027-Apr-07
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2886.219650470302
- Image
- 160P 2019-10-31 image ZTF-sso-286-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-07-15
- provisional designation
- 160P/2004 NL21
- absolute magnitude
- 6.7
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4790971487339167
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.967229288813575
- periapsis
- 2.066541048169307
- apoapsis
- 5.867917529457842
- orbital inclination
- 17.27621470826743
- longitude of ascending node
- 337.0020906796049
- argument of periapsis
- 18.19829512986031
- mean anomaly
- 0.05948310176440832
- time of periapsis
- 2456189.0231075077
- epoch
- September 19, 2012
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Orbit
- References
- External links
160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet came to perihelion on 18 September 2012, and reached about apparent magnitude 17.
== Orbit ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “160P/LINEAR” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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