C/2002 VQ94 (LINEAR)
C/ is a non-periodic comet with a comet nucleus estimated to be in diameter. It was discovered on 11 November 2002 by LINEAR. It only brightened to total apparent magnitude 15.7 because the perihelion point of was outside of the inner Solar System.
Orbit
The comet has an observation arc of 9.5 years allowing a very good estimate of the inbound and outbound orbits. The orbit of a long-period comet is properly obtained when the osculating orbit is computed at an epoch after leaving the planetary region and is calculated with respect to the center of mass of the Solar System. Inbound JPL Horizons shows an epoch 1950 barycentric orbital period of 2,597 years with aphelion of 371 AU from the Sun. Outbound with an epoch of 2050 JPL Horizons shows a period of approximately 2,521 years and an aphelion distance of 364 AU.Precovery images from October 2001 when the comet was from the Sun are known. Cometary activity was first detected at the end of August 2003 when the comet was from the Sun.