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166P/NEAT 
Discovery Discovered by: NEAT Discovery date: October 15, 2001 Alternate designations: P/2001 T4 Orbital characteristics A Epoch: March 6, 2006 Aphelion distance: 19.1 AU Perihelion distance: 8.559 AU Semi-major axis: 13.83 AU Eccentricity: 0.3811 Orbital period: 51.43 a Inclination: 15.3813° Last perihelion: May 15, 2002 Next perihelion: November 25, 2053 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.[1]
166P/NEAT has a perihelion distance of 8.56 AU.[2]
Periodic comets (by number) Previous
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167P/CINEOSReferences
- ^ Bauer, James M.; Fernández, Yanga R., & Meech, Karen J. (2003). "An Optical Survey of the Active Centaur C/NEAT (2001 T4)". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 115 (810): 981–989. Bibcode 2003PASP..115..981B. doi:10.1086/377012.
- ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 166P/NEAT (2001 T4)". 2008-03-02 last obs. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2001T4. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
External links
- Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Ephemeris
- 166P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list
Categories:- Centaurs (minor planets)
- Comets
- Centaur and trans-Neptunian object stubs
- Comet stubs
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