- 169P/NEAT
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169P/NEAT Discovery Discovered by: NEAT Discovery date: March 15, 2002 Alternate designations: P/2002 EX12 Orbital characteristics A Epoch: March 6, 2006 Aphelion distance: 4.602 AU Perihelion distance: 0.6054 AU Semi-major axis: 2.604 AU Eccentricity: 0.7675 Orbital period: 4.201 a Inclination: 11.3185° Last perihelion: November 30, 2009 Next perihelion: February 15, 2014 169/NEAT is a periodic comet in our solar system. It is the parent body of the alpha Capricornids meteor shower.
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