163P/NEAT

For other comets discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking survey, see Comet NEAT (disambiguation).

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.^[1]

163P/NEAT

Discovery
Discovered by	Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (644)[1]
Discovery date	November 5, 2004
Designations
Alternative designations	2004 V4
Orbital characteristics
Epoch	February 10, 2012 (JD 2455967.5) (Uncertainty=2)[2]
Aphelion	5.470 AU (Q)
Perihelion	2.056 AU (q)
Semi-major axis	3.763 AU (a)
Eccentricity	0.4535
Orbital period	7.30 yr
Inclination	12.71°
Last perihelion	August 5, 2019[3][4] April 12, 2012[3] January 31, 2005[5]
Next perihelion	2026-Nov-24[4]

Precovery images of the comet were found by Maik Meyer in December 2004.^[6] There were two images from 1997, two images from 1991, and three images from 1990.^[7]

During the 2005 perihelion passage the comet brightened to an apparent magnitude of about 16.^[8]

Around November 17, 2114, the comet will pass about 0.117 AU (17,500,000 km; 10,900,000 mi) from Jupiter.^[9]