- Source: 166P/NEAT
166P/NEAT is a periodic comet and centaur in the outer Solar System. It was discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project in 2001 and initially classified a comet with provisional designation P/2001 T4 (NEAT), as it was apparent from the discovery observations that the body exhibited a cometary coma. It is one of few known bodies with centaur-like orbits that display a coma, along with 60558 Echeclus, 2060 Chiron, 165P/LINEAR and 167P/CINEOS. It is also one of the reddest centaurs.
166P/NEAT has a perihelion distance of 8.56 AU, and is a Chiron-type comet with (TJupiter > 3; a > aJupiter).
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Ephemeris
166P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 2060 Chiron
- 166P/NEAT
- Centaur (small Solar System body)
- List of numbered comets
- 2060 Chiron
- Comet NEAT (disambiguation)
- Comet
- 166 (number)
- C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
- Chiron-type comet
- 276P/Vorobjov
