160P/LINEAR

{{Infobox comet

| name = 160P/LINEAR

| image = 160P 2019-10-31 image ZTF-sso-286-zr-fov-4.7arcmin.png

| caption = Comet 160P/LINEAR photographed by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 31 October 2019

| discoverer = LINEAR

| discovery_date = July 15, 2004

| mpc_name = {{mp|P/2004 NL|21}}

| epoch = March 6, 2006

| perihelion = 2.082 AU

| aphelion = 5.878 AU

| semimajor = 3.98 AU| eccentricity = 0.4768

| period = 7.94 a

| inclination = 17.2578°

| last_p = December 2, 2019
September 18, 2012
October 12, 2004

| next_p = 2027-Apr-07

}}

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

Orbit

File:160P LINEAR orbit.jpg|Diagram of the orbit of 160P/LINEAR by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

{{reflist|refs=

{{cite web

|date=2009-04-23

|title=160P/LINEAR (NK 1775)

|publisher=OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections

|author=Syuichi Nakano

|author-link=Syuichi Nakano

|url=http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk/nk1775.htm

|accessdate=2012-02-25}}

{{cite web

|date=2012-02-21

|title=160P/LINEAR (2012)

|publisher=Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog

|author=Seiichi Yoshida

|url=http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0160P/2012.html

|accessdate=2012-02-25}}

{{cite web

|title=160P/LINEAR Orbit

|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=160P

|accessdate=2014-06-18}}

}}

{{JPL Small Body|id=1000511}}
[http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0160P/2004NL21.html 160P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000303/http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/returnprepeph.cgi?d=c&o=0160P Elements and Ephemeris for 160P/LINEAR] – Minor Planet Center