British Astronomical Association
Comet Section

2005 News

Jan 01  Hua Su reports an archival Kreutz comet in C3 from 2004 October 4
Jan 03  Yuan-Shang Tsai reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 06  Hua Su, Kazimieras Cernis and Dave Johnson report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 11  Jim Danaher reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 12  Deep Impact space probe to 9P/Tempel successfully launched
Jan 13  Hua Su and Kazimieras Cernis report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 14  Orbit for interesting asteroid 2004 YJ35 published.  It may be a comet.
Jan 14  LINEAR discovers 15th mag comet 2005 A1
Jan 15  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3 - SOHO 900
Jan 17  Eric Christensen finds distant comet 2005 B1
Jan 25  Kazimieras Cernis reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 26  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jan 30  Bo Zhou reports a real time Meyer comet in C2
Feb 02  Hua Su reports a real time Meyer comet in C2
Feb 02  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 03  Xavier Leprette reports an archival Kreutz comet in C3 from March 1997
Feb 07  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 13  Rainer Kracht reports a real time non group comet in C2
Feb 13  Asteroid 2003 WY25 linked to comet D/1819 (Blanpain)
Feb 22  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 22  Apollo asteroid 2004 LE posted on the NEOCP
Feb 22  Kazimieras Cernis reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Feb 23  Hua Su and Xing Gao report a real time non group comet in C2
Feb 26  Bo Zhou reports two real time Kreutz comets in C3
Mar 07  Michael Oates reports a possible real time Kreutz comet in C2
Mar 07  A F Tubbiolo discovers comet 2005 E1 on Spacewatch images
Mar 09  105P/Singer Brewster recovered
Mar 10  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Marsden group comet in C3
Mar 12  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 13  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 14  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Mar 14  Kazimieras Cernis reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 14  Rob McNaught of the Siding Spring Survey discovers 2005 E2
Mar 15  Tony Hoffman and Kazimeras Cernis report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Mar 15  Xavier Leprette and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 15  Rainer Kracht reports four archival finds in C3
Mar 15  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Mar 15  Marsden group comet 2005 E4 linked to 1999 N5
Mar 17  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 18  Hua Su and Kazimeras Cernis report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 21  Rainer Kracht reports two archival finds in C3
Mar 22  Rainer Kracht and Xavier Leprette report two archival finds in C3
Mar 23  Rainer Kracht reports an archival Meyer goup find in C3 from 1996
Mar 28  Maik Meyer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Mar 28  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Mar 28  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Mar 29  LONEOS discovery of unusual asteroid 2005 EL173 in MPEC
Apr 04  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Apr 04  LINEAR discovers faint, distant comet 2005 G1
Apr 08  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 09  Chong Liang reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 11  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 13  LONEOS asteroid 2005 GF8 found to be cometary
Apr 14  Hua Su reports a real time Marsden group comet in C3
Apr 14  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 15  Rainer Kracht reports two archival finds in C3
Apr 17  Hua Su reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Apr 19  Unveilling of George Alcock memorial plaque in Peterborough cathedral
Apr 21  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Apr 21  Chong Liang and Rob Matson report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 22  Brian Marsden predicts returns for 1999 P6 (around April 28) and P8 & P9 (around May 18)
Apr 24  Bo Zhou reports an unconfirmed real time Kreutz comet in C3
Apr 24  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 25  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 26  Bo Zhou, Pavel Shkreby & Ali Koohpaee report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Apr 26  Rainer Kracht reports a real time non group comet in C2
Apr 28  Bo Zhou reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
May 01  Asteroid 2005 HC4 has perihelion at 0.0574 AU
May 02  Chong Liang reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 03  LINEAR discovers faint, distant comet 2005 H1
May 05  Maik Meyer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 08  Rob McNaught discovers a faint periodic comet 2005 J1
May 08  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 10  Bo Zhou & Kazimieras Cernis report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
May 10  LONEOS object 2005 EL173 confirmed as a comet
May 10  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
May 12  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 14  John Sachs reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 15  Bo Zhou & Mike Boschat  report a Kreutz comet in C2 from yesterday
May 15  Bo Zhou & Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 15  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 16  Catalina sky survey discovers faint comet 2005 J2
May 16  Spacewatch discovers faint periodic comet 2005 JN
May 17  Catalina sky survey discovers periodic comet 2005 JQ5
May 17  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
May 17  Brian Skiff discovers faint comet 2005 K1
May 18  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 20  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 20  LINEAR discovers 18th mag comet 2005 K2
May 20  Hua Su, Xavier Leprette & Quanzhi Ye report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 20  Karl Battams reports a possible fragment to the real time Kreutz comet in C2
May 26  Rainer Kracht reports two archival Kreutz comets in C3 from August & September 2001
May 28  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
May 30  Karl Battams reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 01  Rob McNaught discovers 17th mag periodic comet 2005 K3
Jun 01  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 03  Rob McNaught discovers 17th mag periodic comet 2005 L1
Jun 03  Rob McNaught discovers 19th mag comet 2005 L2
Jun 05  Sebastian Hoenig, Tony Hoffman & Xavier Leprette report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 05  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jun 05  Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag comet 2005 L3
Jun 06  Hua Su & Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 06  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 07  Catalina Sky Survey discover comet P/2005 JY126
Jun 09  Possible outburst of comet 2005 K2
Jun 09  Kazimieras Cernis reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 09  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jun 12  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 12  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 12  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 14  Eric Christensen discovers faint periodic comet 2005 L4
Jun 15  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jun 16  Karl Battams reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 17  Centaur asteroid 2004 PY42 discovered by CINEOS has shown a coma
Jun 19  Hua Su reports a non-group comet in C2
Jun 20  Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2005 M1
Jun 21  Tony Hoffman & Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 21  Jinao Zhang reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 24  Sebastian Hoenig reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 25  Xavier Leprette reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jun 27  Rob Matson reports two real time Kreutz comets in C2 & C3
Jun 29  Kazimieras Cernis reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jun 30  Asteroid 2005 JD108 noted as cometary by NEAT
Jul 03  Juels & Holvorcem discover 14th mag comet 2005 N1
Jul 05  Deep Impact impactor is hit by 9P/Tempel
Jul 05  1998 W2 (P/Hergenrother) recovered as 2005 N2
Jul 05  New comet 2005 N3 discovered by Steve Larson
Jul 06  Tao Chen & Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Jul 11  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 12  Bo Zhou and John Sachs report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 12  Rainer Kracht reports the discovery of a Kreutz comet in archival SOLWIND images (1981 W1)
Jul 13  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 13  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 14  Catalina Sky Survey discover comet 2005 N4
Jul 14  Catalina Sky Survey discover comet 2005 N5
Jul 17  Unusual short period retrograde asteroid 2005 NP82 discovered
Jul 21  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 23  Tony Hoffman and John Sachs report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 25  Rainer Kracht reports the discovery of two Kreutz comets in archival SOLWIND images
Jul 26  Tony Hoffman and Quanzhi Ye report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Jul 26  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Jul 26  A further SOLWIND comet found by Rainer Kracht is awaiting orbital determination
Aug 01  Asteroid 2002 EX12, discovered by NEAT, found to show a tail
Aug 01  NEAT discovers faint comet 2005 O1
Aug 03  Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2005 O2
Aug 05  Tony Scarmato, Quanzhi Ye and Xing Gao report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 05  Tony Scarmato and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3 (SOHO 1000)
Aug 11  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 12  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 13  Elements for SOLWIND comet 1984 R1 published
Aug 14  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 17  SOHO 1000 formally announced
Aug 17  Steve Farmer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 19  Hua Su, Tony Hoffman & Maik Meyer report a non group comet in C2
Aug 23  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Aug 24  Steve Farmer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 25  Michael Mattiazzo reports a possible comet in SWAN images
Aug 25  Hua Su reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Aug 29  Steve Farmer, Rob Matson and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Aug 29  LINEAR discovers a faint, distant comet 2005 Q1
Aug 30  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Marsden group comet in C2
Aug 30  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 05  LINEAR discovers 19th magnitude periodic comet 2005 Q4
Sep 05  NEAT discovers 18th magnitude periodic comet 2005 R1
Sep 06  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 06  Hua Su and Bo Zhou report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 11  Van Ness (LONEOS) discovers 16th mag periodic comet 2005 R2
Sep 11  LINEAR asteroid 2004 FY140 found to show cometary characteristics
Sep 12  1998 W1 (P/Spahr) recovered as 2005 R3
Sep 13  169P/NEAT reported at 12th magnitude
Sep 15  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 16  LINEAR discovers faint, distant comet 2005 R4
Sep 18  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 20  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 23  Quanzhi Ye reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 23  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 24  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 25  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 25  Tao Chen reports a Kreutz comet in C3 from September 24
Sep 26  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 27  Hua Su reports a bright real time Kreutz comet in C3 - 2005 S1
Sep 29  Bo Zhou and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Sep 30  Brian Skiff discovers faint, distant comet 2005 S2
Oct 01  Michael Read discovers faint comet 2005 S3
Oct 01  Rob McNaught discovers faint, distant comet 2005 S4
Oct 01  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 04  Bo Zhou, Hua Su and Quanzhi Ye report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 06  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 06  Unusual asteroid 2005 SB223 in marginally retrograde orbit
Oct 06  Steve Farmer reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Oct 08  Hua Su reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Oct 08  1993 W1 (P/Mueller) recovered as 2005 T1
Oct 11  Eric Christensen discovers faint periodic comet 2005 T2
Oct 11  Michael Read discovers faint periodic comet 2005 T3
Oct 12  Asteroid 2005 TF50 may be a member of the Taurid complex
Oct 12  Asteroid 2005 TJ50 is in a retrograde orbit
Oct 14  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Oct 15  Tony Hoffman reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 17  Asteroid 2005 SD (LINEAR) found to have a coma and tail
Oct 18  Hua Su reports two real time Kreutz comets in C3
Oct 19  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 21  Tony Scarmato reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 22  Rob Matson and Michael Mattiazzo report a comet in SWAN images (2005 T4)
Oct 23  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Oct 23  Comet found during Catalina Sky Survey linked to LONEOS asteroid 2005 RV25
Oct 24  Quanzhi Ye reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Oct 24  Further observations show 2005 SD has no coma or tail
Oct 25  Australian amateur John Broughton discovers faint periodic comet 2005 T5
Oct 25  LINEAR asteroid 2000 QJ46 found to have coma and tail
Oct 26  73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann recovered
Oct 28  Michael Read discovers faint periodic comet 2005 U1
Oct 28  Secondary component reported for 2004 U1
Oct 30  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 02  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 03  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 04  Tony Scarmato and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 05  Fabrizio Bernardi discovers faint periodic comet 2005 V1 with the CFH telescope
Nov 07  Rob Matson and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 08  Unusual asteroid 2005 UJ159 has a 70 year period and perihelion at 0.6 AU
Nov 08  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 09  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 09  Unusual asteroid 2005 VX3 has a 30 year, retrograde orbit
Nov 09  Hua Su reports a real time non-group comet in C2
Nov 13  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 17  Hua Su, Rainer Kracht and Tony Scarmato report a Marsden group comet in C2
Nov 18  Marsden group comet 2005 W1 linked to 2000 C4
Nov 18  Tony Scarmato reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 19  Wentao Xu reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 19  Jiangao Ruan reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 19  Hua Su reports a real time Meyer group comet in C2
Nov 19  Tony Hoffman and Bo Zhou report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 21  Hua Su reports a near real time Meyer group comet in C2
Nov 21  Quanzhi Ye, Xing Gao and Tony Scarmato report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 21  Tony Scarmato and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 21  Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2005 W2
Nov 23  Bo Zhou reports a real time Kracht group comet in C2
Nov 23  Tony Scarmato reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 25  Hua Su and Tony Scarmato report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 27  Richard Kowalski discovers faint comet 2005 W3
Nov 28  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Nov 29  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Nov 29  Hua Su and Rainer Kracht report a real time Marsden comet in C2
Dec 02  SOHO completes 10 years of operation with 1062 comets
Dec 02  Asteroidal object 2004 YJ35 confirmed as a comet
Dec 03  SOHO Kracht comet 2000 O3 linked to 2005 W4
Dec 04  Hua Su and DongHua Chen report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 04  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 06  Kazimieras Cernis and Tony Hoffman report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 08  Jiangao Ruan and Hua Su report a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 09  Hua Su reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 09  Edward Beshore discovers faint comet 2005 X1
Dec 12  Quanzhi Ye reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 12  Rob Matson reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 17  Steve Farmer reports a real time Kracht group comet in C2
Dec 20  Quanzhi Ye, Tony Scarmato and Tao Chen report a real time Kreutz comet in C3 and C2
Dec 20  Sebastian Hoenig reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 22  Karl Battams reports two real time Kreutz comets in C2
Dec 23  SOHO Marsden comet 1999 U2 linked to 2005 W5
Dec 26  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Meyer comet in C2
Dec 26  Rainer Kracht reports a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 26  Steve Farmer and Robert Gagliano report a real time Kreutz comet in C3
Dec 27  Quanzhi Ye reports a real time Kreutz comet in C2
Dec 29  Rainer Kracht reports two archival Kracht group comets from December 1996
Dec 31  Rainer Kracht reports three archival Marsden group comets from January 1997