118401 LINEAR [SEP] discoverer or inventor
118401 LINEAR
118401 LINEAR, provisional designation , is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR) that was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7, 1999. (118401) LINEAR was discovered to be cometary on November 26, 2005, by Henry H. Hsieh and David C. Jewitt as part of the Hawaii Trails project using the Gemini North 8-m telescope on Mauna Kea and was confirmed by the University of Hawaii's 2.2-m (88-in
numbered asteroids: 2060 Chiron (95P/Chiron), 4015 Wilson–Harrington (107P/Wilson–Harrington), 7968 Elst–Pizarro (133P/Elst–Pizarro), 60558 Echeclus (174P/Echeclus), (282P/2003 BM), (288P/2006 VW), and (362P/2008 GO). As a dual-status object, astrometric observations of 118401 LINEAR should be reported under the minor planet designation.
118401 LINEAR last came to perihelion on 2017 March 12.
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