240P/NEAT (Record n° 30894)
Perihelion distance : 2.12 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 24 °
Orbital period : 7.59 years
Eccentricity : 0.45
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Jan 17 18h28 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.4 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 2.133 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.503 AU Right ascension 50.40133 ° Declination +20.28139 ° MPC report COD Y87
CON J.-G. Bosch
OBS J.-G. Bosch
MEA J.-G. Bosch
TEL 0.25-m f/4.75 reflector + CMO
NUM 82
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.01.17 20:13:03
NET Gaia DR2
AC2 jgbosch@free.fr
0240P KB2026 01 17.76943 03 21 36.32 +20 16 53.0 16.2 G Y87
0240P KB2026 01 17.77379 03 21 36.44 +20 16 56.7 15.6 G Y87
0240P KB2026 01 17.77815 03 21 36.56 +20 17 00.5 15.3 G Y87
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 1187.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.75 Camera Asi 294MM Sensor CMOS Sensor temperature 0 °C Binning 4x4 Mount EQ6-R pro Exposure details 37x25s Observatory MPC code Y87 Location Trevinca skies-Amalthea Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Jan 17 20h19m19s Observation modification date 2026 Jan 17 20h22m01s