252P/LINEAR
Sign in to saveComet 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.
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- Instance of
- periodic comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 1942.518729595199
- Image
- Comet 252P LINEAR closeup in Ophiucus.jpg
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- Commons category
- 252P/LINEAR
- time of discovery or invention
- 2000-04-07
- provisional designation
- 252P/2000 G1
- discoverer or inventor
- Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
- absolute magnitude
- 16.4
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6730850153945767
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.046804058107118
- periapsis
- 0.9960459017518297
- apoapsis
- 5.097562214462405
- orbital inclination
- 10.42219597127401
- longitude of ascending node
- 190.9484957698451
- argument of periapsis
- 343.3104746438897
- mean anomaly
- 16.6305339416182
- time of periapsis
- 2457462.763545376
- epoch
- June 13, 2016
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “252P/LINEAR” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.