240P/NEAT
Sign in to save240P/NEAT is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 7.61 years. It was discovered by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) on 7 December 2002.
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It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2002, Comets in 2018 and Comets in 2025.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2778.998538632369
- Image
- 240P 2018-12-12 image ZTF-sso-669-zr-fov-7.0arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
- time of discovery or invention
- 2002-12-07
- provisional designation
- 240P/2002 X2
- absolute magnitude
- 11.8
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.4497915331222734
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.868357420877458
- periapsis
- 2.128403005876063
- apoapsis
- 5.608311835878853
- orbital inclination
- 23.52457998891132
- longitude of ascending node
- 74.95185767202207
- argument of periapsis
- 352.1523893207767
- mean anomaly
- 162.737000100595
- time of periapsis
- 2455474.261429275
- epoch
- March 14, 2014
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Observational history
- 240P-B
- References
- External links
240P/NEAT is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 7.61 years. It was discovered by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) on 7 December 2002.
The comet came opposition on 22 November 2025, and came to perihelion on 19 December 2025 when it was around magnitude 12-13.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “240P/NEAT” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.