C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
Comet
Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) is a non-periodic comet that appeared in November 2002. The comet peaked with an apparent magnitude of approximately –0.5, making it the eighth-brightest comet seen since 1935. It was seen by SOHO in February 2003. At... Wikipedia
Discovered: November 6, 2002
Discovered by: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, announced by S.H. Pravdo, Named after NEAT Observatory in Hawaii; (608)
Aphelion: ~2,230 AU (Q)
Last perihelion: February 18, 2003