240P/NEAT (Record n° 30979)
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 Feb 21 19h15 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " r (dist/Sun) 2.179 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.936 AU Right ascension 58.98825 ° Declination +27.69003 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 reflector + CCD
NUM 6
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.02.22 10:31:00
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0240P KC2026 02 21.80234 03 55 57.18 +27 41 24.1 16.6 r L27
0240P KC2026 02 21.83121 03 55 59.60 +27 41 42.9 16.6 r L27
0240P KC2026 02 21.83989 03 56 00.34 +27 41 48.7 16.7 r L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 28 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad Seeing Observation submission date 2026 Feb 22 10h43m16s Observation modification date 2026 Feb 22 10h59m02s