Comet 252P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet and near-Earth object discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey on 7 April 2000.
Comet 252P/LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet and near-Earth object discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey on 7 April 2000.
At some point, 252P/LINEAR separated from a second object designated 460P/PanSTARRS, that was discovered in January 2016. The nucleus of 460P/PanSTARRS is wide, which is larger than the nucleus of 252P, which is estimated to be across, but it is less active. 252P/LINEAR approached as close as to Earth on 21 March 2016.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).