Cometa NEAT C/2002 V1

IAU Circular 8010 (November 6, 2002) announced the discovery C/2002 V1 by NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking) of a 16th magnitude comet. The preliminary orbit (MPEC V31, November 7, 2002) indicates that this comet will pass very close to the Sun on February 18, 2003. The perihelion distance is about 0.1 AU.

Estimación de la magnitud visual Cometa C/2002 V1 (NEAT) desde el Obs. UCM:

• 27 Enero 2003: V=6.7 (R 40x150)
• 29 Enero 2003: V=6.3 (B 10x70)

Imágenes CCD del Cometa C/2002 V1 (NEAT) desde el Obs. UCM:

Comet NEAT (C/2002 V1) visible in the LASCO C3 coronagraph of SOHO (Feb, 2003)

• The very latest SOHO images
• LASCO, Recent Images from the Sun and the Corona

Links

Orbital Elements & Ephemeris of C/2002 V1 (NEAT) Minor Planet Center, MPC

• Daily Ephemeris
• Recent magnitude estimates

Recent News and Observations of C/2002 V1 (NEAT) JPL, C.S. Morris

Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) (Gary W. Kronk's Cometography)

Orbit visualization of Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT)

CAMPAÑA OBSERVACIONAL C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
Sociedad de Observadores de Meteoros y Cometas de España SOMYCE

A NEAT Sunset Comet S&T (Jan, 2003)

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