Comet LINEAR
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of comet
s discovered, co-discovered and re-discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project (LINEAR)
, an Earth-based automated sky survey.
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet which has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated — usually historical comets), or "A" for an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a minor planet
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
s discovered, co-discovered and re-discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project (LINEAR)
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until...
, an Earth-based automated sky survey.
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet which has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated — usually historical comets), or "A" for an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a minor planet
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
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Numbered periodic comets
| Comet | Discoverer(s) or Namesake |
|---|---|
| 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet in our solar system.Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel originally discovered the comet on November 27, 1869, it was later observed by Lewis Swift on October 11, 1880 and realised to be the same comet.After 1908 the comet became an unobservable lost comet,... |
Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel , normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy.... , Swift Lewis A. Swift Lewis A. Swift was an American astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle... & LINEAR |
| 146P/Shoemaker-LINEAR | C. Shoemaker Carolyn S. Shoemaker Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.- Personal life :... , E. Shoemaker & LINEAR |
| 148P/Anderson-LINEAR | Anderson & LINEAR |
| 156P/Russell-LINEAR | Russell & LINEAR |
| 158P/Kowal-LINEAR 158P/Kowal-LINEAR -External links:*... |
Kowal Charles T. Kowal Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer.He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975, although the latter was lost and not rediscovered until 2000.... & LINEAR |
| 160P/LINEAR 160P/LINEAR - External links :*... |
LINEAR |
| 165P/LINEAR 165P/LINEAR - External links :*... |
LINEAR |
| 176P/LINEAR = minor planet 118401 LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 187P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 188P/LINEAR-Mueller | LINEAR & Mueller Jean Mueller Jean Mueller is an American astronomer.Working at Palomar Observatory, she has discovered a total of 15 comets, including 7 periodic comets 120P/Mueller, 131P/Mueller, 136P/Mueller, 149P/Mueller, 173P/Mueller, 188P/LINEAR-Mueller, 190P/Mueller, and 8 non-periodic comets.She has also discovered 10... |
| 193P/LINEAR-NEAT | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| 194P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 197P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 204P/LINEAR-NEAT | LINEAR & NEAT |
| 209P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 214P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 216P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 217P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 218P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 219P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 221P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 222P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 225P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski | Pigott Edward Pigott Edward Pigott was an English astronomer, and the son of astronomer Nathaniel Pigott and Anna Mathurine de Bériot . Probably born in Whitton, Middlesex, his elder brother, Charles Gregory, died in young age. He also had a younger sister, Mathurina... & LINEAR & Kowalski Richard A. Kowalski Richard A. Kowalski is an American astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and other near-Earth objects.Kowalski has had a lifelong interest in astronomy with an emphasis on planetary science. As an amateur in Florida during the 1990s he developed an interest in astrometric and... |
| 227P/Catalina-LINEAR | Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... & LINEAR |
| 228P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 230P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 231P/LINEAR-NEAT | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| 234P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 235P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 236P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 237P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 239P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 241P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 247P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 249P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 251P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
| 252P/LINEAR | LINEAR |
Unnumbered periodic comets
| Comet | Discoverer(s) or Namesake |
|---|---|
| P/1998 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/1998 Y1 (LINEAR | LINEAR |
| P/1999 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/1999 S3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2000 G2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2000 D2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2000 R2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 A1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 A2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 B1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2002 T5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 F1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 O2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 O3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 R1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 U2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 U1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2003 W1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2005 Q4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2008 A2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2008 R3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR-Catalina) | LINEAR & Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... |
| P/2004 V5 (LINEAR-Hill) | LINEAR & Hill |
| (LINEAR-NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| (LINEAR-NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT |
| P/2004 R3 (LINEAR-NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT |
| P/2004 T1 (LINEAR-NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT |
| P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff) | LINEAR & Skiff Brian A. Skiff Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman-Skiff and 140P/Bowell-Skiff... |
| P/2000 S4 (LINEAR-Spacewatch) | LINEAR & Spacewatch Spacewatch Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets... |
| P/2002 T6 (NEAT-LINEAR) | NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... & LINEAR |
| (Spacewatch-LINEAR) | Spacewatch & LINEAR |
| P/2010 A2 P/2010 A2 P/2010 A2 is a small Solar System body that displayed characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet, and thus, was initially given a cometary designation. Since it has the orbit of a main-belt asteroid and showed the tail of a comet, it was listed as a main-belt comet... (LINEAR) |
LINEAR |
| P/2010 A5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2010 WK (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| P/2011 J3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
Non-periodic comets
| Comet | Discoverer(s) or Namesake |
|---|---|
| C/1998 K2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 K3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 K5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 M1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 M2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 M4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 M5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 Q1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 T1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 U1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 U5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1998 W3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 H3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 J3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 J4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 K3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 K4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 K5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 K6 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 K7 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 K8 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 L2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 L3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 N4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 S4 C/1999 S4 C/1999 S4 is a long-period comet discovered on September 27, 1999, by LINEAR.The comet made its closest approach to the Earth on July 22, 2000, at a distance of . It came to perihelion on July 26, 2000, at a distance of 0.765 AU from the Sun.... (LINEAR) |
LINEAR |
| C/1999 T2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 T3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/1999 Y1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2000 B2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2000 H1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2000 K1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2000 K2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2000 U5 C/2000 U5 C/2000 U5 is a single-apparition comet discovered on October 29, 2000, by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research. The comet has an observation arc of 362 days allowing a good estimate of the orbit... (LINEAR) |
LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 A1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 B1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 C1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR-NEAT) | LINEAR & NEAT Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking is a program run by NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discover near-Earth objects. The NEAT project began in December 1995 and ran until April 2007.-History:... |
| C/2001 K5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 N2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 U6 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 W1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2001 X1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 A3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 B2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 B3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 C2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 H2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 J5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 K2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 O7 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 Q2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 Q3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 Q5 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 T7 C/2002 T7 C/2002 T7 is a comet discover in 2002 by LINEAR project.The LINEAR project announced the discovery of this object on 2002 October 14.42. At that time, comet had a magnitude of 17.5.... (LINEAR) |
LINEAR |
| C/2002 U2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 V2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2002 X1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 G2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 H1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 H2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 L2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 O1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 S3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 S4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 T2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 T4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2003 V1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 B1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (Catalina-LINEAR) | Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for Near-Earth objects. More specifically, to search for potentially hazardous asteroids , that may pose a threat of impact.-Mission:... & LINEAR |
| C/2004 F2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 H1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 K3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 L1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 L2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 U1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 X2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2004 X3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 A1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 H1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 K2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 Q1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 R4 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2005 YW (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2006 M1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2006 S2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2006 VZ13 C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR) Comet C/ , is a non-periodic comet discovered November 13, 2006 by the LINEAR.The object was initially believed to be a minor planet due to its stellar appearance in the early images. However, observers soon detected a small coma and the telltale green cometary cast.The comet peaked at... (LINEAR) |
LINEAR |
| C/2006 X1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 D1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 D3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 G1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 M3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 O1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 U1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 W3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2007 Y1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2008 H1 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2008 R3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2008 X3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2009 B2 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
| C/2009 T3 (LINEAR) | LINEAR |
External links
- Minor Planet Center Periodic Comet Numbers
- Cometography.com Periodic Comets
- Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog (includes a listing of unnumbered periodic comets)
- Periodic comets on the Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node
See also
- List of periodic comets
- List of non-periodic comets
- Minor Planet CenterMinor Planet CenterThe Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , which is part of the Center for Astrophysics along with the Harvard College Observatory ....