163P/NEAT

{{Short description|Periodic comet with 7 year orbit}}

{{For|other comets discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking survey|Comet NEAT (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox Comet

| name=163P/NEAT

| image=

| discoverer=Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (644)

| discovery_date=November 5, 2004

| designations=2004 V4

| epoch=February 10, 2012
(JD 2455967.5)
(Uncertainty=2)

| semimajor=3.763 AU (a)

| perihelion=2.056 AU (q)

| aphelion=5.470 AU (Q)

| eccentricity=0.4535

| period=7.30 yr

| inclination=12.71°

| last_p=August 5, 2019
April 12, 2012
January 31, 2005

| next_p=2026-Nov-24

}}

163P/NEAT is a periodic comet discovered on November 5, 2004 by Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) using the 1.2 meter Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.

Precovery images of the comet were found by Maik Meyer in December 2004. There were two images from 1997, two images from 1991, and three images from 1990.

During the 2005 perihelion passage the comet brightened to an apparent magnitude of about 16.

Around November 17, 2114, the comet will pass about {{convert|0.117|AU|km mi|abbr=on|lk=on}} from Jupiter.

References

{{reflist|refs=

{{cite web

|date=2004-11-06

|title=IAUC 8429: C/2004 V3; C/2004 V4; 78P

|publisher=IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

|url=http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08400/08429.html

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|type=last observation: 2012-01-20

|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 163P/NEAT

|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=163P

|publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|date=2011-10-01

|title=163P/NEAT

|publisher=Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog

|author=Seiichi Yoshida

|url=http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0163P/index.html

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|date=2011-10-12

|title=163P/NEAT (NK 2129)

|publisher=OAA Computing and Minor Planet Sections

|author=Syuichi Nakano

|author-link=Syuichi Nakano

|url=http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~oaacs/nk/nk2129.htm

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|date=2004

|title=The precovery of comet 163P/2004 V4 (NEAT)

|publisher=Catalogue of Comet Discoveries

|author=Maik Meyer

|url=http://www.comethunter.de/163p.html

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|date=2004-12-08

|title=MPEC 2004-X29 : COMET P/2004 V4 (NEAT)

|publisher=IAU Minor Planet Center

|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/mpec/K04/K04X29.html

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|date=2005-04-23

|title=163P/NEAT (2005)

|publisher=Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog

|author=Seiichi Yoshida

|url=http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0163P/2004V4.html

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|type=last observation: 2012-01-20

|title=JPL Close-Approach Data: 163P/NEAT

|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=163P;cad=1#cad

|access-date=2012-02-28}}

{{cite web

|title=163P/NEAT Orbit

|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=163P

|publisher=Minor Planet Center

|access-date=2014-06-18}}

}}