British Astronomical Association
Comet Section
2006 News
Jan 01 Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2005 Y2
Jan 02 Rainer Kracht reports another archival Kracht group comet from December 1996
Jan 02 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 04 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 04 12th magnitude object at high southern declination on NEOCP
Jan 05 Object confirmed as comet 2006 A1 (Pojmanski)
Jan 06 New comet found by Rik Hill identified with LONEOS asteroid 2005 XA54
Jan 06 Centaur asteroid (60558) 2000 EC98 found to have a coma
Jan 10 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10 Unusual asteroid 2005 YQ127 discovered by LINEAR shown to have cometary characteristics
Jan 12 Steve Farmer and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 20 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 22 Rainer Kracht reports a bright Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 24 Catalina Sky Survey discover another faint, distant comet 2006 A2
Jan 26 Unusual asteroid 2006 BZ8 has 16 year, retrograde orbit
Jan 26 Hua Su reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 26 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 28 Comet 2000 C1 (Hergenrother) recovered as 2006 A3
Jan 30 Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2006 B1
Jan 30 Karl Battams and Quanzhi Ye report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 02 Rainer Kracht reports two Kreutz comets from archival C3 images in 1996
Feb 07 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 08 Asteroid 2005 SB216 discovered by LONEOS shown to have cometary features
Feb 08 Unusual asteroid 2006 CK10 in retrograde orbit
Feb 09 Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 10 Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 14 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C3 images from 1997
Feb 16 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images (SOHO-1100)
Feb 18 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C3 images from 1997
Feb 20 Steve Farmer and Quanzhi Ye report a Kreutz comet in C3 images
Feb 21 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 24 Rik Hill discovers faint periodic comet 2006 D1 during the Catalina SS
Feb 27 Sebastian Hoenig and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 28 Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02 2006 CK10 shown to have cometary characteristics
Mar 06 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer comet in archival C2 images from 1998
Mar 08 Four additional fragments of 73P observed, total now 7
Mar 09 Asteroid 2006 EX52 in long period retrograde orbit
Mar 09 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C2 images from 1998
Mar 11 Rainer Kracht reports a possible non group comet in archival C2 images from 1997
Mar 12 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in archival C2 images from 1997
Mar 13 Hua Su and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 15 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 image
Mar 15 Rob Matson reports a Marsden comet in real time C3 images
Mar 16 Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag comet 2006 E1
Mar 16 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C2 images from 1998
Mar 18 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C3 images from 1998
Mar 21 Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 22 Tony Hoffman reports a Meyer comet in real time C2 images
Mar 23 R Kowalski discovers 18th mag comet 2006 F1 during the Mt Lemon survey
Mar 24 E Christensen discovers 20th mag periodic comet 2006 F2 during the Mt Lemon survey
Mar 24 A further two components of 73P reported, total now 9
Mar 26 Tony Hoffman reports a Marsden comet in real time C2 images
Mar 28 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Mar 28 Another four components of 73P reported, total now 13
Mar 29 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 30 20th magnitude periodic comet 2006 F4 discovered by Spacewatch
Apr 03 Another 5 components of 73P have been detected, with component B in outburst
Apr 07 Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag comet 2006 G1
Apr 08 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10 Asteroid 2006 GZ2 in retrograde orbit
Apr 11 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 14 John Sachs and Hua Su report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 17 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19 Karl Battams reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19 Asteroid 2006 GZ2 confirmed as cometary
Apr 21 Adam Ambrus reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Apr 24 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24 Themis-family asteroid 118401 found to have a tail
Apr 25 Two more components of 73P reported - AQ & AR
Apr 26 Two more components of 73P reported - AS & AT
Apr 28 Hua Su and John Sachs report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Apr 28 Sunskirting asteroid 2006 HY51 discovered
Apr 29 Nineteen more components of 73P reported, AU - BM
May 01 Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag periodic comet
May 03 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 04 Tony Hoffman, Piaoyang Cui & Hua Su report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 04 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 06 Four more components of 73P reported, BN - BQ
May 08 Karl Battams reports a Kreutz comet in yesterday's C3 images
May 08 Hua Su reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 and C3 images
May 08 Rob Matson and John Sachs report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 10 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images (unconfirmed)
May 10 Tony Hoffman reports a double Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 10 Hua Su and Tao Chen report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 11 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 11 John Sachs reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 15 Guoyou Sun and Mike Boschat report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 17 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
May 18 Luciano Cane and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 18 Rob McNaught discovers comet 2006 K1
May 18 Bo Zhou and Rob Matson report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 19 Two more components of 73P reported, BR - BS
May 19 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 20 Wentao Xu, Hua Su and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 20 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 22 Hua Su reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
May 22 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 22 Hua Su, Rob Matson and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 23 Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag periodic comet 2006 K2
May 24 Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 24 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 24 Rob McNaught discovers 17th mag comet 2006 K3
May 24 NEAT discovers 20th mag comet 2006 K4
May 25 Tao Chen reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 25 Rob Matson reports two Kreutz comets in real time C2 images
May 26 Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 26 Hua Su reports a non group comet in archival C2 images from December 1999
May 29 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 29 Tao Chen, Hua Su and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 29 Vladimir Bezugly reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jun 02 Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in C2 images
Jun 03 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in archival C2 images from November 1999
Jun 05 Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 05 Unusual asteroid 2006 HW51 found to have a coma
Jun 07 Gordon Garradd finds 18th mag comet 2006 L1
Jun 08 Unusual asteroid 2006 LM1 in retrograde orbit found during the Mt Lemon survey
Jun 08 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09 Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in C2 images
Jun 10 Tony Hoffman and Hua Su report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 14 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 15 Rob McNaught discovers 14th magnitude comet 2006 L2
Jun 16 Tao Chen and John Sachs report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 19 Tony Hoffman, Guoyou Sun and Tao Chen report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 22 LINEAR discovers faint comet 2006 M1
Jun 22 Spacewatch discovers faint comet 2006 M2
Jun 22 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 24 Comet 1889 M1 (P/Barnard) recovered
Jun 27 Secondary body appears to be source of activity for 174P/Echeclus
Jun 27 Tao Chen, Hua Su and Piaoyang Cui report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 27 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in C2 images from June 25
Jul 11 Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 12 New comet 2006 M4 found in SOHO/SWAN images
Jul 13 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 14 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jul 14 Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 17 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 17 Comet 1999 X1 (Hug-Bell) recovered as 2006 O1
Jul 17 Edgar Wilson awards to Charles Juels, Paulo Holvorcem and John Broughton announced
Jul 20 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 21 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 23 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 25 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 26 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2006 O2
Aug 01 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 02 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 02 Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images (not confirmed)
Aug 03 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03 Asteroid 2006 HR30 (Siding Spring) shown to be a comet
Aug 03 Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03 Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz comet (the 1000th) in real time C3 images
Aug 08 Rob McNaught discovers new comet 2006 P1
Aug 23 Rob McNaught discovers new comet 2006 Q1
Aug 30 Peter Birtwistle recovers comet 76P/
Aug 31 Faint periodic comet 2006 Q2 discovered by LONEOS
Sep 02 Hua Su reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 03 Comet 2006 R1 discovered at Siding Spring
Sep 11 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15 David Storey has recovered 2006 M4 post conjunction
Sep 15 Eric Christensen discovers faint periodic comet 2006 R2
Sep 17 Eric Christensen discovers faint periodic comet 2006 S1
Sep 18 Rob Matson reports five Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Sep 18 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 19 Faint comet 2006 S2 discovered by LINEAR
Sep 21 LONEOS discovers faint comet 2006 S3
Sep 23 Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2006 S4
Sep 26 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 29 Rik Hill discovers two faint comets, 2006 S5 and 2006 S6
Sep 29 2006 OF2 confirmed as a comet
Oct 02 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C3 images
Oct 02 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 03 Hua Su and Vladimir Bezugly report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2/C3 images
Oct 03 Guoyou Sun and Tao Chen report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 03 David Levy discovers 11th mag comet 2006 T1
Oct 06 Wentao Xu and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 10 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 10 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 12 2005 YW (LINEAR) confirmed as a comet
Oct 15 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 16 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in near real time C2 images
Oct 17 Toni Scarmato and Tony Hoffman report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 17 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images from October 12
Oct 19 Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20 Tony Hoffman reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 21 LINEAR discovers a faint short-period comet 2006 U1
Oct 23 Jim Scotti recovers P/Jedicke as 2006 U2
Oct 24 2001 K1 (P/NEAT) recovered as 2006 U3
Oct 24 Hua Su and Shihong Yuan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 24 Tao Chen and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 25 STEREO spacecraft launched
Oct 25 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 27 2001 V1 (P/Shoemaker-Levy) recovered as 2006 U4
Oct 29 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 29 Luciano Cane reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 29 Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2006 U5
Oct 30 Tao Chen, Rainer Kracht and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 30 Spacewatch discovers faint comet 2006 U6
Oct 30 Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2006 U7
Oct 30 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C2 images from October 2003
Nov 01 John Sachs reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 02 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C2 images from April 2003
Nov 03 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 03 Hua Su and Rob Matson report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 05 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2003 January
Nov 07 Tony Hoffman, Wentao Xu and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 08 Hua Su and Vladimir Bezugly report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Rainer Kracht and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 13 Hua Su and Rob Matson report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 15 Catalina Sky Survey discovers faint comet 2006 V1
Nov 16 Asteroid 2006 VZ13 discovered in 40 year retrograde orbit
Nov 18 Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2006 W1
Nov 19 Weak enhancement of Leonid meteors around 05:00 UT
Nov 19 Tony Hoffman reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Nov 20 Eric Christensen recovers 2001 WF2 (P/LONEOS) as 2006 W2
Nov 20 Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2006 W3
Nov 20 Possible comet in SWAN images reported by Rob Matson and Toni Scarmato [not confirmed]
Nov 22 Asteroid 2006 WD4 discovered with retrograde orbit and perihelion at 0.5 AU
Nov 24 Rik Hill discovers faint periodic comet 2006 W4
Nov 25 Rainer Kracht and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 01 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2003 Feb 08
Dec 04 2006 VZ13 confirmed as a comet
Dec 09 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 10 Maik Meyer reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 10 Tony Scarmato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 10 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 11 Xing Gao reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 12 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12 LINEAR discovers faint distant comet 2006 X1
Dec 15 Tony Hoffman and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 15 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 15 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18 Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Rainer Kracht, Hua Su and Shihong Yuan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Catalina Sky Survey and Eric Christensen discover distant comet 2006 YC
Dec 20 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 20 Eric Christensen recovers comet 1999 DN3 (P/Korlevic-Juric) as 2006 Y1
Dec 21 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 21 Rainer Kracht and Tony Hoffman report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21 Michele Mazzucato and Tony Scarmato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 22 Giovanni Sostero reports the possible recovery of 87P/Bus
Dec 23 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images [this turned out to be the same comet]
Dec 24 Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 27 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 28 Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 28 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 28 Alex Gibbs discovers a faint comet 2006 Y2
Dec 29 Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 29 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 29 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Published by Jonathan Shanklin. Jon Shanklin - jds@ast.cam.ac.uk