243P/NEAT
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- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2744.310387112781
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2003-09-24
- absolute magnitude
- 10.4
- discoverer or inventor
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
- provisional designation
- 243P/2003 S2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3597422806557585
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.836099544758594
- periapsis
- 2.456092345704621
- apoapsis
- 5.216106743812567
- orbital inclination
- 7.634660002311523
- longitude of ascending node
- 87.72477868535479
- argument of periapsis
- 283.9436494818824
- mean anomaly
- 349.966929145722
- time of periapsis
- 2455623.982946
- epoch
- December 17, 2010
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243P/NEAT is a periodic comet currently with a 7.49-year orbit around the Sun.
== Physical characteristics == In 2008, Elena M. Epifani observed the comet while it was inactive at a distance of , where she estimated that the nucleus has an effective radius of , assuming that it has a geometric albedo of 0.04. Yanga R. Fernández estimated a revised upper limit of approximately based on Spitzer thermal observations in 2013. Michael S. P. Kelley stated that both results can be simultaneously true if the comet has an axial ratio of a/b > 1.3, which is a modest value for typical cometary nuclei.
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