169P/NEAT

Summary

169P/NEAT is a periodic comet^[1]. 169P/NEAT draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 169P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].
• 169P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[4].
• 169P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 169P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[6].
• 169P/NEAT's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 169P/NEAT's child astronomical body is recorded as Alpha Capricornids^[8].
• 169P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 169P/2002 EX12^[9].
• 169P/NEAT's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2002-03-15T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 169P/NEAT's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bwg4b^[11].
• 169P/NEAT's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1001656^[12].
• 169P/NEAT's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.76678671524008'}^[13].
• 169P/NEAT's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+16.8'}^[14].
• 169P/NEAT's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.29975659629151'}^[15].
• 169P/NEAT's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1536.577062124513'}^[16].
• 169P/NEAT's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+8.369'}^[17].
• 169P/NEAT's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+176.191240874642'}^[18].
• 169P/NEAT's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.605977205493197'}^[19].
• 169P/NEAT's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.604205906883849'}^[20].
• 169P/NEAT's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.6077485041025456'}^[21].
• 169P/NEAT's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+217.9589738446162'}^[22].
• 169P/NEAT's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+353.1343221373035'}^[23].
• 169P/NEAT's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 169P^[24].
• 169P/NEAT's epoch is recorded as November 1, 2009^[25].
• 169P/NEAT's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2455165.804550261'}^[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

169P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].

Why It Matters

169P/NEAT draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #28 of 183).^[2] 169P/NEAT has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27]