P/2004 F3 (NEAT)
Discovered on 28 March 2004 with the 1.2-m Schmidt at Haleakala,
Hawaii, the comet was reported to show a short tail in the discovery
announcement in
IAUC 8313.
Although quite bright at this apparition, the comet has not yet been
found on old image archives. Its perihelion distance is currently 2.9 AU,
though before a passage to within 0.37 AU of Jupiter on July 2001 it was
somewhat larger at about 3.8 AU and was previously at perihelion in late
1995/ early 1996.
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