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.
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
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Wikidata facts
- Orbital period
- 2886.219650470302
- Image
- 160P 2019-10-31 image ZTF-sso-286-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png
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- 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
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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 ==
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