252P/LINEAR
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| Discovered | April 7, 2000 |
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| Earth moid | 1 cm |
| Discoverer | Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research |
| Comet total magnitude (M1) | 18. 9 ± 1 |
| Comet nuclear magnitude (M2) | 22. 7 ± 0. 9 |
| Next perihelion | July 10, 2021 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0. 6736 |
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| ID | 2957761 |
About 252P/LINEAR
Comet 252P/LINEAR is a periodic comet and near-Earth object discovered by the LINEAR survey on April 7, 2000. The comet is an Earth-Jupiter family comet, meaning that it passes quite close to both Earth and Jupiter. This causes its orbit to be perturbed frequently on an astronomical timescale.