163P/NEAT

Summary

163P/NEAT is a periodic comet^[1]. 163P/NEAT draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 163P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].
• 163P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 163P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 163P/NEAT's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 163P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 163P/2004 V4^[7].
• 163P/NEAT's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-11-05T00:00:00Z^[8].
• 163P/NEAT's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0j432z2^[9].
• 163P/NEAT's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000521^[10].
• 163P/NEAT's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4760207902070628'}^[11].
• 163P/NEAT's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.8'}^[12].
• 163P/NEAT's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.5046364138996'}^[13].
• 163P/NEAT's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2578.711715188626'}^[14].
• 163P/NEAT's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+103.3473604614274'}^[15].
• 163P/NEAT's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.680184379233587'}^[16].
• 163P/NEAT's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.432028655544047'}^[17].
• 163P/NEAT's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.928340102923126'}^[18].
• 163P/NEAT's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+348.0530592645111'}^[19].
• 163P/NEAT's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+91.67080610483673'}^[20].
• 163P/NEAT's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 163P^[21].
• 163P/NEAT's epoch is recorded as November 20, 2006^[22].
• 163P/NEAT's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2453402.8539398797'}^[23].

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Works and Contributions

163P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].

Why It Matters

163P/NEAT draws 4 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #32 of 183).^[2] 163P/NEAT has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24]