163P/NEAT (Record n° 31884)
Perihelion distance : 2.05 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 13 °
Orbital period : 7.29 years
Eccentricity : 0.45
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 19 01h54 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 19.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 2.122 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.028 AU Right ascension 94.68771 ° Declination +15.50881 ° 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 2
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.09.19 07:32:06
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0163P KC2026 09 19.07950 06 18 45.05 +15 30 31.7 19.5 r L27
0163P KC2026 09 19.10264 06 18 47.50 +15 30 33.0 19.3 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 -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 60 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2 Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 19 05h45m19s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 19 06h03m49s