217P/LINEAR
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- Orbital period
- 2866.922628435055
- Image
- Comet LINEAR 090818.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2001-06-21
- provisional designation
- 217P/2001 MD7
- absolute magnitude
- 14.5
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6888524860610463
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.949526484382122
- periapsis
- 1.228885346851553
- apoapsis
- 6.670167621912691
- orbital inclination
- 12.86187024801161
- longitude of ascending node
- 125.5396376085153
- argument of periapsis
- 246.9392946917731
- mean anomaly
- 150.3482993663735
- time of periapsis
- 2455083.175162222
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217P/LINEAR is a periodic Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 7.83 years. It was discovered by LINEAR on 11 July 2001.
Upon discovery the comet was diffuse. It was later identified as an asteroidal object with an estimated magnitude of 17.6 detected on 21 and 24 June 2001, again by LINEAR, that had been named . A preliminary orbit indicated an orbital period of 7.5 years. The comet brightened up to an apparent magnitude of 12 from November 2001 to January 2002.
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