British Astronomical Association
Comet Section

2004 News

Jan 02  Stardust spacecraft successfully encounters 81P/Wild
Jan 09  John Sachs reports a bright real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 13  Brian Skiff discovers a faint, distant periodic comet 2004 A1
Jan 16  Tony Hoffman reports a faint real time Kracht comet in C2
Jan 16  Unusual asteroid 2003 WT42 confirmed as a comet
Jan 18  John Sachs, Sebastian Hoenig and Tony Hoffman report a Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 18  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kracht comet in C2
Jan 19  Sebastian Hoenig reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 21  Jim Danaher reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 21  Mike Boschat reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 23  Asteroid 2003 SQ215 discovered by NEAT and LONEOS found to be cometary
Jan 24  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 25  Mike Boschat reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 30  Sebastian Hoenig reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 30  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2004 B1
Feb 01  Asteroid 2003 WC7 discovered by LINEAR and Catalina found to be cometary
Feb 02  Windows version of comet data entry program released
Feb 03  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 05  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Meyer comet in C2
Feb 05  Rainer Kracht reports an archival Meyer comet in C2 from January 28
Feb 08  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 08  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 10  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 13  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 13  Jim Larsen has discovered a faint comet in Spacewatch CCD images
Feb 14  DongHua Chen and Tony Scarmato report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 25  Tony Hoffman and XingMing Zhou report real time Kreutz comets in C3
Feb 26  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 28  The discovery of a faint comet by NEAT is reported
Mar 01  The discovery of an asteroid in a cometary orbit reported
Mar 09  Kazimieras Cernis reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 12  Rainer Kracht reports a non group comet in C2
Mar 15  Discovery of the first Oort cloud object announced
Mar 15  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in C3 from yesterday
Mar 15  Sebastian Hoenig reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 16  Unusual asteroid 2004 DO29 found to be a comet
Mar 17  Rainer Kracht and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 20  NEAT discovers faint periodic comet
Mar 22  Sebastian Hoenig and John Sachs report a real time Kreutz comet in C3 (SOHO 750)
Mar 26  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 29  LINEAR discover faint comet 2004 F2
Mar 29  NEAT discover 16th mag periodic comet 2004 F3
Mar 31  Asteroid 2004 CB (LINEAR) found to be a comet
Apr 02  XingMing Zhou and John Sachs report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Apr 04  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Apr 10  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2004 G1
Apr 10  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Apr 10  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
Apr 11  Rainer Kracht and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 12  Bill Bradfield's discovery of bright comet 2004 F4 in twilight reported
Apr 13  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 14  Asteroid 2004 DZ61 discovered by Catalina and LINEAR found to be a comet
Apr 15  Asteroid 2004 EW38 discovered by Catalina and LINEAR found to be a comet
Apr 15  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 16  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Apr 18  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2004 H1
Apr 18  Rainer Kracht and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 19  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
Apr 19  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Marsden group comet in C2
Apr 19  Mike Boschat reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
Apr 21  Jim Larsen discovers a faint periodic comet 2004 H2 in Spacewatch images
Apr 24  Jim Larsen discovers another faint periodic comet 2004 H3
Apr 30  Asteroid 2004 HC18 discovered by LINEAR found to be a comet
Apr 30  Unusual asteroid 2004 HV60 discovered by Spacewatch
Apr 30  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
Apr 30  Karl Battams reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
May 02  Tony Hoffman and Rainer Kracht report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 04  Mike Boschat and Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 04  X Leprette, R Kracht & J Sachs report a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 06  XingMing Zhou and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 06  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kracht group comet in C2
May 07  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 08  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kracht group comet in C2
May 09  Faint asteroid 2004 HV60 discovered by Spacewatch found to be a comet
May 10  Rainer Kracht, John Sachs and XingMing Zhou report a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 10  Mike Boschat reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C3
May 11  Sebastian Hoenig and Rainer Kracht report a real time Kreutz group comet in C3
May 12  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 12  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kracht group comet in C2
May 14  Tony Hoffman, X Zhou & X Leprette report a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 14  Rainer Kracht reports two real time Kracht group comets in C2
May 14  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kracht group comet in C2
May 15  Rainer Kracht reports two real time Kracht group comets in C2
May 18  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 20  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 21  Mike Boschat reports a real time Kreutz group comet in C2
May 23  DongHua Chen reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 23  Dave Evans reports an archival Kreutz comet in C2 from May 14
May 24  Maik Meyer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 24  Catalina survey discovers a faint comet 2004 K1
May 24  Vladimir Bezugly reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 25  Maik Meyer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 27  XingMing Zhou & Pavel Shkreby report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 27  New comet 2004 H6 visible in SWAN comet movies
May 28  Rob McNaaught discovers faint comet P/2004 K2
May 30  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jun 03  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2004 K3
Jun 05  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 07  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 08  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 09  R Kracht, J Sachs and X Zhou report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 09  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3 (SOHO-799?)
Jun 10  Kazimieras Cernis discovers SOHO-800 in C3
Jun 10  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 13  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kracht comet in C2
Jun 14  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2004 L1
Jun 17  LINEAR discovers faint, distant comet 2004 L2
Jun 18  Rainer Krach, Tony Hoffman and Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 24  Johns Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jun 26  Tony Hoffman reports an archival Kreutz group comet from June 15 in C2
Jun 27  Tony Hoffman reports three real time Kreutz comets in C2
Jun 28  DongHua Chen reports a Kreutz group comet from June 26 in C2
Jun 28  Xavier Leprette reports a secondary fragment following one of the June 27 objects
Jul 01  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jul 01  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 05  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 07  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 08  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 09  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 12  Xavier Leprette reports two archival finds from June 1996
Jul 16  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 17  Siding Spring survey discovers unusual asteroid in retrograde orbit
Jul 18  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 26  XingMing Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 05  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 05  XingMing Zhou killed in car crash
Aug 05  Dave Evans reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 06  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 07  Jim Danaher reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 08  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 09  NEAT discovers faint distant comet 2004 P1
Aug 11  LINEAR discover asteroid 2004 PB27 in an unusual orbit
Aug 12  Campo Imperatore-CINEOS discover apparently distant asteroid 2004 PY42 in an indeterminate orbit
Aug 13  Jim Danaher reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 15  Tony Hoffman and Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 17  X/ SOHO comet reported on 2002 August 11 confirmed
Aug 19  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 20  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 25  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 25  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 25  Roy Tucker discovers 15th mag comet 2004 Q1
Aug 27  Don Machholz discovers 11th mag comet 2004 Q2
Aug 30  Fred Whipple dies
Sep 04  Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag comet 2004 R1
Sep 04  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 04  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 05  Tony Scarmato reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3 (unconfirmed)
Sep 07  Hua Su, Xavier Leprette & Jim Danaher report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 07  Karl Battams reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 08  The comet mail list has reports of a possible comet discovery in asas data
Sep 08  ASAS object posted on the NEOCP
Sep 09  ASAS object confirmed as comet 2004 R2
Sep 16  LINEAR-NEAT discover faint periodic comet 2004 R3
Sep 18  Object 2004 NL21, initially discovered by LINEAR found to be cometary
Sep 20  Karl Battams reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 22  Tsai Yuan-Sheng and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 28  M E Van Ness discovers faint comet 2004 S1 on LONEOS images
Sep 28  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 05  Hua Su and Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 05  Rainer Kracht and John Sachs report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 06  LINEAR-NEAT discover periodic comet 2004 T1
Oct 12  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 12  Rainer Kracht reports an archival Meyer comet in C2 from October 8/9 (Meyer 50)
Oct 13  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 16  Heiner Otterstedt reports a real time non group comet in C3, 2004 U2
Oct 17  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Oct 18  Karl Battams reports a real time Meyer comet in C2
Oct 21  Heiner Otterstedt reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3 
Oct 21  Reiner Kracht reports a possible companion to it
Oct 21  Discovery of faint comet 2004 T3 by Rob McNaught reported
Oct 21  Discovery of faint comet 2004 U1 by LINEAR reported
Oct 22  Xing Gao reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Oct 23  Xavier Leprette and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 25  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 26  Hua Su and Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Oct 26  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 28  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 02  Newsletter 22 completed
Nov 04  Tony Hoffman reports real time Kreutz comets in C2 and C3
Nov 04  Brian Skiff discovers faint periodic comet 2004 V1
Nov 05  Recovery of P/Hartley-IRAS (2004 V2) announced
Nov 06  Rob McNaught discovers faint distant comet 2004 V3
Nov 06  NEAT discovers faint comet 2004 V4
Nov 08  Karl Battams reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 08  Heiner Otterstedt reports a real time Marsden group comet in C3
Nov 08  Karl Battams reports a companion to this object in C2
Nov 08  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 09  Tony Hoffman reports a real time non group comet in C2
Nov 10  Xavier Leprette and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 11  Catalina report discovery of a comet, previously found as a LINEAR asteroid 2003 YM159
Nov 12  Asteroid 2004 TU12, discovered at Siding Spring, found to have a tail
Nov 14  Maik Meyer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 16  Tony Hoffman reports a real time non group comet in C3
Nov 16  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 18  Tony Scarmato reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 19  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 22  Sebastain Hoenig and Bo Zhou report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 23  Xavier Leprette and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 23  LINEAR discover a comet linked to asteroid 2004 RG113
Nov 24  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 24  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 28  Xing Gao and Maik Meyer report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 30  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Marsden group comet in C2
Nov 30  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 03  Steve Farmer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 03  Comet 2004 U1 in outburst at 14th mag
Dec 04  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 06  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 08  LINEAR asteroid 2004 WR9 confirmed as a comet
Dec 08  Rainer Kracht reports a real time non group comet in C2
Dec 08  Rob Matson and Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 08  Maik Meyer finds prediscovery images of 2004 V4 from 1990/91 and 1997
Dec 08  Rob Matson reports a possible real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 09  Comet 2004 X1 discovered by LINEAR
Dec 10  LINEAR object confirmed as comet 2004 X2
Dec 10  Asteroid 2004 VR8 discovered by LONEOS found to be cometary
Dec 13  Karl Battams reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 13  Karl Battams, Kazimieras Cernis and Xing Gao report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 13  Greg Gallina reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 14  Marsden group SOHO comet 2004 V9 shown to be possibly periodic
Dec 16  John Sachs and Heiner Otterstedt report a non group comet in C3 (2004 V13)
Dec 16  Comet found in SWAN imagery by Michael Mattiazzo (2004 V13), linked by Sebastian Hoenig
Dec 21  LINEAR object confirmed as comet 2004 X3
Dec 22  Eric Christensen of the Catalina Sky Survey finds periodic comet 2004 Y1
Dec 24  Tony Scarmato reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 24  Heiner Otterstedt reports a real time non group comet in C3
Dec 25  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 26  Heiner Otterstedt reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 26  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 27  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 28  Xing Gao reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 28  Tony Hoffman reports a real time non group comet in C2
Dec 28  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2 (X comet)
Dec 29  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 31  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3