246P/NEAT
Sign in to save246P/NEAT is a periodic comet discovered on 2004 March 28 by Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) using the reflector at Haleakala. It was given the permanent number 246P on 14 January 2011.
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- Instance of
- Jupiter-family comet
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2952.648508958887
- Image
- 246P 2021-06-08 image ZTF-sso-236-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-03-28
- provisional designation
- 246P/2004 F3
- absolute magnitude
- 6.1
- epoch
- May 3, 2013
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2850480097052068
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4.027870963401338
- periapsis
- 2.879734361934393
- apoapsis
- 5.176007564868284
- orbital inclination
- 15.97174063882322
- longitude of ascending node
- 78.78055605571116
- argument of periapsis
- 176.1749009910362
- mean anomaly
- 11.5037851088734
- time of periapsis
- 2456321.1482390305
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246P/NEAT is a periodic comet discovered on 2004 March 28 by Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) using the reflector at Haleakala. It was given the permanent number 246P on 14 January 2011.
== Orbit == It is a Quasi-Hilda comet. Due to perturbations by Jupiter, the 2005, 2013 and 2021 perihelion passages will be closer to the Sun. The comet is observable all through its orbit.
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