207P/NEAT
Sign in to save207P/NEAT is a periodic Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 7.62 years. It was discovered by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) on 11 March 2001.
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- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Parent body
- Sun
- Orbital period
- 2782.488402923747
- Image
- 207P 2024-03-05 image ZTF-sso-357-zg-size-600.0arcsec.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
- time of discovery or invention
- 2001-03-11
- provisional designation
- 207P/2001 J1
- absolute magnitude
- 18.1
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.7591366275576407
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 3.87159533032828
- periapsis
- 0.9325255079949598
- apoapsis
- 6.810665152661602
- orbital inclination
- 10.18636766892787
- longitude of ascending node
- 198.3425903195204
- argument of periapsis
- 272.9964819380401
- mean anomaly
- 248.3597746412275
- time of periapsis
- 2460341.3823121125
- epoch
- September 21, 2021
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207P/NEAT is a periodic Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 7.62 years. It was discovered by Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) on 11 March 2001.
The comet upon discovery appeared diffuse, with the coma having a diameter of 8 to 15 arcseconds and its apparent magnitude was estimated to be 19.9 by NEAT and 17.1 – 17.3 by other observers. After further observations it was determined that it is a short period comet, with an orbital period of about 7.5–7.9 years which has a rough similarity with that of the lost comet Biela according to Shuichi Nakano. It was also identified as a faint asteroidal object that was detected by Arianna Gleason of Spacewatch on 7 October 2000, but it wasn't followed-up.
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