240P/NEAT

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240P/NEAT

Summary

240P/NEAT is a Jupiter-family comet[1].

Key Facts

  • 240P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking[2].
  • 240P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[3].
  • 240P/NEAT's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[4].
  • 240P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 240P/2010 P1[5].
  • 240P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 240P/2002 X2[6].
  • 240P/NEAT's time of discovery or invention is recorded as December 7, 2002[7].
  • 240P/NEAT's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4497915331222734'}[8].
  • 240P/NEAT's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.8'}[9].
  • 240P/NEAT's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+23.52457998891132'}[10].
  • 240P/NEAT's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2778.998538632369'}[11].
  • 240P/NEAT's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+74.95185767202207'}[12].
  • 240P/NEAT's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.868357420877458'}[13].
  • 240P/NEAT's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.608311835878853'}[14].
  • 240P/NEAT's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.128403005876063'}[15].
  • 240P/NEAT's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+352.1523893207767'}[16].
  • 240P/NEAT's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+162.737000100595'}[17].
  • 240P/NEAT's epoch is recorded as March 14, 2014[18].
  • 240P/NEAT's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2455474.261429275'}[19].

Body

Definition and Type

240P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · C messier · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Epoch March 14, 2014
    Apoapsis {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.608311835878853'}
    Instance of
    Orbital inclination {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+23.52457998891132'}
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: 240P 2025-10-31 image ZTF-sso-455-zr-size-15.0arcmin.png"
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