240P/NEAT

Summary

240P/NEAT is a Jupiter-family comet^[1]. 240P/NEAT draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter_family_comet category, ranking #7 of 8).^[2]

Key Facts

• 240P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].
• 240P/NEAT's image is recorded as 240P 2018-12-12 image ZTF-sso-669-zr-fov-7.0arcmin.png^[4].
• 240P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[5].
• 240P/NEAT's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[6].
• 240P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 240P/2010 P1^[7].
• 240P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 240P/2002 X2^[8].
• 240P/NEAT's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2002-12-07T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 240P/NEAT's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000422^[10].
• 240P/NEAT's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4497915331222734'}^[11].
• 240P/NEAT's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.8'}^[12].
• 240P/NEAT's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+23.52457998891132'}^[13].
• 240P/NEAT's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2778.998538632369'}^[14].
• 240P/NEAT's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+74.95185767202207'}^[15].
• 240P/NEAT's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.868357420877458'}^[16].
• 240P/NEAT's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.608311835878853'}^[17].
• 240P/NEAT's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.128403005876063'}^[18].
• 240P/NEAT's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+352.1523893207767'}^[19].
• 240P/NEAT's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+162.737000100595'}^[20].
• 240P/NEAT's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/122s97x_^[21].
• 240P/NEAT's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 240P^[22].
• 240P/NEAT's epoch is recorded as March 14, 2014^[23].
• 240P/NEAT's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2455474.261429275'}^[24].

Body

Works and Contributions

240P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].

Why It Matters

240P/NEAT draws 2 Wikipedia views per month (jupiter_family_comet category, ranking #7 of 8).^[2]