163P/NEAT
Sign in to save163P/NEAT is a periodic comet discovered on November 5, 2004 by Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) using the 1.2 meter Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.
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- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2578.711715188626
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- discoverer or inventor
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-11-05
- provisional designation
- 163P/2004 V4
- absolute magnitude
- 11.8
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4760207902070628
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.680184379233587
- periapsis
- 1.928340102923126
- apoapsis
- 5.432028655544047
- orbital inclination
- 12.5046364138996
- longitude of ascending node
- 103.3473604614274
- argument of periapsis
- 348.0530592645111
- mean anomaly
- 91.67080610483673
- time of periapsis
- 2453402.8539398797
- epoch
- November 20, 2006
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163P/NEAT is a periodic comet discovered on November 5, 2004 by Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) using the 1.2 meter Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.
Precovery images of the comet were found by Maik Meyer in December 2004. There were two images from 1997, two images from 1991, and three images from 1990.
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