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C/2002 V1 (NEAT) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) is a non-periodic comet that appeared in November, 2002. The comet appeared with a magnitude of approximately –0.5, making it currently the 7th brightest comet seen in 70 year...
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The comet should not be confused with another that recently looped around the Sun and that also bore a NEAT moniker. That comet NEAT was designated C/2002 V1. The comet NEAT anticipated for next year has been designated as C/2001 Q4.able -->
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S. H. Pravdo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) announced that the 1.2-m Schmidt telescope at Haleakala had found a comet on 2002 November 6.60 in the course of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program.
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The orbital elements are published on M.P.E.C. 2004-L37. The charts are made with StellaNavigator Ver.2.0 for Windows (AstroArts / ASCII). The magnitudes graphs are made with Comet for Windows.
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169P/NEAT ... New periodic comet. Brightening very rapidly. Now it is 15.7 mag (Nov. 15, Ken-ichi Kadota). It will brighten up to 15 mag and will be observable in good condition in winter. ... P/2004 F3 ( NEAT )
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Movie of Comet NEAT as it passes the Sun in February 2003, as seen from the SOHO spacecraft. ... SOHO home page ... ; Movie of Comet NEAT. Image courtesy NASA...
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