169P/NEAT

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169P/NEAT is a periodic comet in our solar system best known as the likely source of the Alpha Capricornid meteor shower.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jupiter-family comet
Solar System object
periodic comet
aphelionDistance 4.60 AU
argumentOfPerihelion 252 degrees
belongsToMeteorShower Alpha Capricornids NERFINISHED
discoveredBy NEAT survey NERFINISHED
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking NERFINISHED
discoveryDate 2002-03-15
eccentricity 0.77
epoch 2008-05-14
hasAbsoluteMagnitude 16.0
hasAlternativeName Comet 169P/NEAT NERFINISHED
P/2002 EX12 NERFINISHED
hasCometDesignation 169P/NEAT GENERATED
hasCometNumber 169 GENERATED
hasDiscoveryCountry United States NERFINISHED
hasDiscoverySite Haleakala Observatory NERFINISHED
hasMeteorShowerActivityPeakMonth early August
late July
hasMeteorStream Alpha Capricornid meteoroid stream NERFINISHED
hasNextPerihelionPassage 2026
hasNucleusDiameter ~4 km
hasObservationType optical
hasOrbitalCategory near-Earth object (dynamically related)
hasOrbitalFamily Jupiter-family comets NERFINISHED
hasOrbitalResonanceInfluence Jupiter NERFINISHED
hasParentMeteorShowerRadiantConstellation Capricornus NERFINISHED
hasPreviousPerihelionPassage 2011 GENERATED
2016 GENERATED
2021 GENERATED
hasTisserandParameterWithRespectToJupiter 2.9
inclination 11.3 degrees
isCataloguedAs 169P
isDynamicallyInfluencedBy Jupiter NERFINISHED
Saturn NERFINISHED
isLikelyParentBodyOf Alpha Capricornid meteor shower NERFINISHED
longitudeOfAscendingNode 301 degrees
minimumOrbitIntersectionDistanceWithEarth 0.18 AU
orbitalPeriod 4.2 years
orbits Sun NERFINISHED
perihelionDistance 0.60 AU
semiMajorAxis 2.60 AU

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Alpha Capricornids parentBody 169P/NEAT