160P/LINEAR

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160P/LINEAR
Discovery
Discovered by	LINEAR
Discovery date	July 15, 2004
Alternative designations	P/2004 NL₂₁
Orbital characteristics ^A
Epoch	March 6, 2006
Aphelion	5.878 AU
Perihelion	2.082 AU
Semi-major axis	3.98 AU
Eccentricity	0.4768
Orbital period	7.94 a
Inclination	17.2578°
Last perihelion	September 18, 2012^[1] October 12, 2004
Next perihelion	2019-Dec-02^[2]

160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet came to perihelion on 18 September 2012,^[1] and reached about apparent magnitude 17.^[3]

References

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External links

Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
160P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list
Elements and Ephemeris for 160P/LINEAR – Minor Planet Center

Features	Nucleus Coma Tails Antitail Comet dust Meteor shower
Types	Encke-types Exocomets Extinct Great Halley-types Interstellar Lost Main-belt no calculated orbit Sungrazing (Kreutz Sungrazers)
Related	Naming of comets Centaur Comet discoverers LINEAR Extraterrestrial atmospheres Oort cloud Small Solar System body Asteroid
Space missions	Comet Hopper CONTOUR CRAF Deep Impact/EPOXI Deep Space 1 Giotto Hayabusa Mk2 ICE Marco Polo Rosetta Philae Timeline Sakigake Stardust/NeXT Suisei Ulysses Vega program Vega 1 Vega 2 Vesta
Latest	C/2015 G2 (MASTER) C/2015 F5 (SWAN-XingMing) C/2015 F3 C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) C/2014 E2 (Jacques) C/2013 US10 (Catalina) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)

Lists of comets (more)

Periodic
comets

Number

None

Non
periodic
comets

Before 1910	C/-43 K1 (Caesar's Comet) X/1106 C1 C/1577 V1 (Great Comet of 1577) C/1652 Y1 C/1680 V1 (Kirsch's Comet/Great Comet of 1680)) C/1702 H1 C/1729 P1 (Comet of 1729) C/1743 X1 (Great Comet of 1744) C/1760 A1 C/1769 P1 C/1811 F1 (Great Comet of 1811) C/1823 Y1 (Great Comet of 1823) C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet of 1843) C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet) C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati) C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher) C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861) X/1872 X1 C/1882 R1 (Great Comet of 1882) C/1887 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1887) C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910)
After 1910	C/1911 O1 (Brooks) C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky) C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany) C/1948 V1 (Eclipse) C/1956 R1 (Arend–Roland) C/1961 R1 (Humason) C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) C/1969 Y1 (Bennett) C/1970 K1 (White–Ortiz–Bolelli) C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) C/1975 V1 (West) C/1980 E1 (Bowell) C/1989 X1 (Austin) C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko–George) C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell) C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp) C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) C/1997 L1 (Zhu–Balam) C/1998 H1 (Stonehouse) C/1999 F1 (Catalina) C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) C/2000 U5 (LINEAR) C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones) C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) C/2006 A1 (Pojmański) C/2006 M4 (SWAN) C/2006 P1 (McNaught) C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) C/2007 N3 (Lulin) C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) C/2007 W1 (Boattini) C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN) C/2009 R1 (McNaught) C/2010 X1 (Elenin) C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) C/2012 E2 (SWAN) C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 S1 (ISON) C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) C/2013 US10 (Catalina) C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) C/2014 E2 (Jacques) C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
After 1910 (abc's)	Arend–Roland Austin Beljawsky Bennett Boattini Bowell Brooks Catalina C/1999 F1 C/2013 US10 Eclipse Elenin Hale-Bopp Humason Hyakutake Ikeya-Seki ISON Jacques Kohoutek Lemmon LINEAR C/1999 S4 C/2000 U5 C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) LONEOS Lovejoy C/2011 W3 C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) Lulin Machholz McNaught C/2006 P1 C/2009 R1 McNaught–Russell NEAT Oukaimeden Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4 C/2012 K1 C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) 311P/PANSTARRS ("P2013 P5") Pojmański Siding Spring C/2007 Q3 C/2013 A1 Skjellerup–Maristany Skorichenko–George Stonehouse SWAN C/2006 M4 C/2012 E2 Utsunomiya–Jones West White–Ortiz–Bolelli Yi–SWAN Zhu–Balam

Misc

Asteroid
comets

Recovered	11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR 15P/Finlay 17P/Holmes 27P/Crommelin 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT 69P/Taylor 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 113P/Spitaler 107P/Wilson–Harrington 177P/Barnard 206P/Barnard–Boattini
Not recovered	D/1770 L1 (Lexell) 3D/Biela 5D/Brorsen 18D/Perrine–Mrkos 20D/Westphal 25D/Neujmin 34D/Gale 75D/Kohoutek

Related

Antimatter comet
See also

Periodic comets (by number)
Previous 159P/LONEOS	160P/LINEAR	Next 161P/Hartley-IRAS

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