249P/LINEAR
Sign in to save249P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 4.61 years. It was discovered by LINEAR on 19 October 2006. It is only active for a brief period around perihelion.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 1684.191394461906
- Image
- 249P 2020-07-31 image ZTF-sso-611-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2006-10-19
- absolute magnitude
- 18.4
- discoverer or inventor
- Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
- provisional designation
- 249P/2006 U1
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.8186684336991458
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.770311966971261
- periapsis
- 0.5023450081128992
- apoapsis
- 5.038278925829623
- orbital inclination
- 8.399343858236897
- longitude of ascending node
- 239.8520444866566
- argument of periapsis
- 64.81035770819307
- mean anomaly
- 255.3067582162348
- time of periapsis
- 2457353.287380196
- epoch
- July 25, 2014
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249P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 4.61 years. It was discovered by LINEAR on 19 October 2006. It is only active for a brief period around perihelion.
== Observational history == The comet was at first reported as an asteroidal object with an apparent magnitude of 17.3 by LINEAR on 19 October 2006. However it was quickly found to be cometary in appearance, with a narrow tail up to 12 arcminutes long and a coma 10 arcseconds across. On 21 October the tail appeared almost disconnected from the head of the comet. A preliminary orbit suggested a short period object with an orbital period of 4.33 years. The comet was recovered on 14 January 2011 by Leonid Elenin using a remote observatory of ISON, when it had an apparent magnitude of 19–19.5.
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