240P/NEAT (Record n° 20020)
Perihelion distance : 2.12 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 24 °
Orbital period : 7.59 years
Eccentricity : 0.45
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Nov 18 02h34 UT by Jean-Francois SoulierMagnitude (MPC m2) 15.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 8.1 " r (dist/Sun) 2.559 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.453 AU Right ascension 160.97958 ° Declination +29.48381 ° MPC report COD C10
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK C10 NEOCP 2018.11.18
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0240P KC2018 11 18.10704 10 43 55.10 +29 29 01.7 15.6 N C10
0240P KC2018 11 18.12919 10 43 56.98 +29 29 05.9 15.5 N C10
0240P KC2018 11 18.15614 10 43 59.13 +29 29 11.6 15.4 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Filter None Camera ST8-XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 30 x 120s Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne (77) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Nov 18 12h07m46s Observation modification date 2018 Nov 18 18h50m00s