Discovery | |
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Discovered by | LINEAR |
Discovery date | 14 October 2002 |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch | 2003-Nov-16.0 |
Observation arc | 1.242 days |
Earliest precovery date | 12 October 2002 |
Perihelion | 0.614 AU |
Eccentricity | 1.000487 |
Inclination | 160.58° |
94.86° | |
Argument of periapsis | 157.74° |
Last perihelion | 23 April 2004 |
Earth MOID | 0.255 AU |
Jupiter MOID | 0.58 AU |
Comet total magnitude (M1) | 7.6 [1] |
C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) is a non-periodic comet discovered in 2002 by LINEAR project. The comet brightened to a magnitude of 2.2.[2]