166P/NEAT
Sign in to save166P/NEAT is a periodic comet and centaur in the outer Solar System. It was discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project in 2001 and initially classified a comet with provisional designation P/2001 T4 (NEAT), as it was apparent from the discovery observations that the body exhibited a cometary coma. It is one of few known bodies with centaur-like orbits that display a coma, along with 60558 Echeclus, 2060 Chiron, 165P/LINEAR and 167P/CINEOS. It is also one of the reddest centaurs.
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- Orbital period
- 18893.62225391887
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2001-10-15
- provisional designation
- 166P/2001 T4
- absolute magnitude
- 7.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3831009241033613
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 13.88282558524133
- periapsis
- 8.564302274369588
- apoapsis
- 19.20134889611307
- orbital inclination
- 15.36840138378012
- longitude of ascending node
- 64.48883847202967
- argument of periapsis
- 321.8789017302635
- mean anomaly
- 7.70086629418928
- time of periapsis
- 2452415.3409478045
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166P/NEAT is a periodic comet and centaur in the outer Solar System. It was discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project in 2001 and initially classified a comet with provisional designation P/2001 T4 (NEAT), as it was apparent from the discovery observations that the body exhibited a cometary coma. It is one of few known bodies with centaur-like orbits that display a coma, along with 60558 Echeclus, 2060 Chiron, 165P/LINEAR and 167P/CINEOS. It is also one of the reddest centaurs.
166P/NEAT has a perihelion distance of 8.56 AU, and is a Chiron-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a > aJupiter).