246P/NEAT

Summary

246P/NEAT is a periodic comet^[1]. 246P/NEAT draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2]

Key Facts

• 246P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].
• 246P/NEAT's image is recorded as 246P 2021-06-08 image ZTF-sso-236-zr-fov-9.3arcmin.png^[4].
• 246P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as periodic comet^[5].
• 246P/NEAT's instance of is recorded as Jupiter-family comet^[6].
• 246P/NEAT's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[7].
• 246P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 246P/2010 V2^[8].
• 246P/NEAT's provisional designation is recorded as 246P/2004 F3^[9].
• 246P/NEAT's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2004-03-28T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 246P/NEAT's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0knwb40^[11].
• 246P/NEAT's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000486^[12].
• 246P/NEAT's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2850480097052068'}^[13].
• 246P/NEAT's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.1'}^[14].
• 246P/NEAT's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.97174063882322'}^[15].
• 246P/NEAT's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2952.648508958887'}^[16].
• 246P/NEAT's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+78.78055605571116'}^[17].
• 246P/NEAT's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+4.027870963401338'}^[18].
• 246P/NEAT's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.176007564868284'}^[19].
• 246P/NEAT's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.879734361934393'}^[20].
• 246P/NEAT's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+176.1749009910362'}^[21].
• 246P/NEAT's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.5037851088734'}^[22].
• 246P/NEAT's epoch is recorded as May 3, 2013^[23].
• 246P/NEAT's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2456321.1482390305'}^[24].

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Works and Contributions

246P/NEAT is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking^[3].

Why It Matters

246P/NEAT draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #27 of 183).^[2] 246P/NEAT has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25]