British Astronomical Association
Comet Section
2008 News
Jan 02 Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2007 Y1
Jan 08 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 11 Rob McNaught discovers 15th magnitude comet 2008 A1
Jan 16 Rainer Kracht reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 18 Asteroid 2007 VO53 found to be a comet
Jan 19 Faint periodic comet 2008 A2 discovered by LINEAR
Jan 26 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 27 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 01 Asteroid 2007 VQ11 found to be a comet
Feb 03 Tao Chen discovers 12th magnitude comet 2008 C1 on images taken by Xing Gao
Feb 03 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 03 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 05 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 05 Milos Tichy and Jana Ticha recover 2000 U6 as 2008 C2
Feb 08 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C3 images
Feb 09 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 14 John Sachs reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 15 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 19 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 19 Tony Hoffman reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 19 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H1A images (the first SECCHI comet)
Feb 21 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H1A images
Feb 22 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H1A images
Feb 23 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H1A images
Feb 25 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 26 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C3 images
Feb 29 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C3 images
Mar 04 Catalina Sky Survey discovers faint comet 2008 E1
Mar 04 Catalina Sky Survey accidently recover 2003 KV2 as 2008 E2
Mar 04 Hua Su reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 05 Hua Su reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 07 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 08 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2008 E3
Mar 08 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H1A images
Mar 12 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 18 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H1A images
Mar 19 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 29 Sun-skirting asteroid 2008 FF5 found by Mt Lemmon Survey
Mar 31 Gareth Williams recovers P/1998 X1 in archive survey data as P/2006 B7
Apr 02 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 09 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 09 Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2008 G1
Apr 10 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 13 Bo Zhou reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 16 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 16 Rob Matson reports a Kracht group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 18 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19 LINEAR discovers faint comet 2008 H1
Apr 21 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 22 Tim Spahr finds P/1994 J3 in CSS observations from April 10, designated P/2008 G2
Apr 23 Jiangao Ruan and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 25 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 27 Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 29 Maik Meyer reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 30 Michal Kusiak and Giuseppe Pappa report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 01 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 02 Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2008 J1
May 05 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 05 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 05 Karl Battams reports a possible companion to the X comet of April 23
May 07 Jiangao Ruan reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 07 Ed Beshore discovers comet 2008 J2
May 07 Giuseppe Pappa reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 08 Shihong Yuan reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2008 J3
May 12 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 12 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 13 Rob McNaught discovers comet 2008 J4
May 14 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 15 Gordon Garradd discovers comet 2008 J5
May 15 Rik Hill discovers comet 2008 J6
May 17 Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
May 18 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 21 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 23 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 25 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 25 Jiangao Ruan reports a Meyer group comets in real time C2 images
May 28 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 28 Giuseppe Pappa reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 31 Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 31 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 01 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 02 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 07 Hua Su and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 10 Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 10 Rainer Kracht reports a Kracht group II comet in real time C2 images, possibly linked to 2002 R5
Jun 10 Rainer Kracht reports a secondary Kracht group II comet in real time C2 images
Jun 10 Jim Scotti recovers P/1997 V1 (Larsen) as 2008 L1
Jun 11 Masanori Uchina and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12 Masanori Uchina and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12 Michal Kusiak and Masanori Uchina report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 12 NASA finds new mineral in particles possibly from 26P
Jun 13 Michal Kusiak and Michele Mazzucato report two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Jun 15 Tony Hoffman and Guiseppe Pappa report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comets in real time C2 images
Jun 15 Rik Hill discovers faint comet 2008 L2
Jun 15 Rik Hill discovers faint comet 2008 L3
Jun 20 P/Larsen numbered 200P
Jun 21 Michal Kusiak and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 22 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 23 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 25 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 25 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images = SOHO 1500
Jun 27 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 28 Tony Hoffman and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 03 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 03 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 04 Tony Hoffman reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 04 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 05 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 06 Tony Hoffman and Guiseppe Pappa report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 07 Asteroidal object 2008 FK75 identified as a comet
Jul 07 Robert Holmes discovers 20th magnitude comet 2008 N1
Jul 07 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 08 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 11 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 12 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 17 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 17 Hua Su reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 18 Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 25 Michal Kusiak reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 31 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01 Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2008 O2
Aug 01 Tao Chen and Xing Gao receive the 2008 Edgar Wilson award
Aug 01 Andrea Boattini discovers faint comet 2008 O3
Aug 01 Hua Su and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04 199P/Shoemaker reported in outburst
Aug 06 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 08 Michal Kusiak and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 08 Unusual Trojan 2006 UG185 identified
Aug 09 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 14 Zhijian Xu and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 15 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2008 P1
Aug 20 Stanislav Maticic discovers faint comet 2008 Q1
Aug 27 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 28 Michel Ory discovers faint periodic comet 2008 Q2
Aug 28 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2008 Q3
Sep 01 Michael Jaeger recovers comet 2001 R1 as 2008 Q4
Sep 04 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in delayed C2 images
Sep 04 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2008 R1
Sep 05 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C3 images
Sep 05 Jim Scotti recovers comet 2001 X2 (P/Scotti)
Sep 06 Rainer Kracht reports a Kracht group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 07 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 08 Bo Zhou and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 08 LINEAR discovers faint comet 2008 R3
Sep 09 Gareth Williams identifies recovery images of 1999 WJ7 (P/Korlevic) as 2008 R4
Sep 09 Gareth Williams identifies recovery images of 2001 TU80 (P/LINEAR-NEAT) as 2008 R5
Sep 10 Koichi Itagaki and Hiroshi Kaneda discover 1896 R2 (Giacobini) as 2008 R6
Sep 12 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 14 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 17 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 18 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in delayed C2 images
Sep 19 Rob McNaught discovers 17th magnitude comet 2008 S1
Sep 19 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 22 2008 S1 identified with asteroid 2008 JK
Sep 24 Rik Hill discovers 18th magnitude comet, identified with asteroid 2008 QP20
Sep 28 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 29 Jiangao Ruan and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 30 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 30 Andrea Boattini discovers distant comet 2008 S3
Oct 02 Andrea Boattini discovers periodic comet 2008 T1
Oct 02 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 04 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 05 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 05 Michal Kusiak and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 08 Rob Cardinal discovers comet 2008 T2.
Oct 08 Andrea Boattini discovers periodic comet 2008 T3
Oct 08 Rik Hill discovers faint periodic comet 2008 T4
Oct 09 Comet 2008 T3 identified with 1892 T1
Oct 10 Rob Matson reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 11 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 13 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 14 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16 Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 18 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 18 Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20 Rainer Kracht, Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20 Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20 Ken-ichi Kadota recovers 2001 J1 (P/NEAT) as 2008 T5
Oct 21 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 21 Robert McMillan discovers faint periodic comet 2008 U1
Oct 24 Zhijian Xu and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 24 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 27 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 27 Rainer Kracht reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Oct 28 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 28 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 30 Rob Matson and Tony Hoffman report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 02 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 04 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 04 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 06 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 07 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 08 Jiangao Ruan reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 18 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C2 images
Nov 21 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO HI-1 images
Nov 23 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 23 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 24 Zhangwei Jin reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 24 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 24 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 26 Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 27 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 29 Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 01 Masanori Uchina and Giuseppe Pappa report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 02 Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 03 Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 03 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04 P/2008 U1 linked to previously unreported LONEOS object in 2000
Dec 05 Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 05 Rik Hill discovers comet 2008 X1
Dec 05 Gary Hug recovers comet 2004 CB (P/LINEAR) as 2008 X2
Dec 06 LINEAR discovers faint comet 2008 X3
Dec 07 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 07 Rainer Kracht reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 09 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 10 Rainer Kracht and Eryk Banach report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12 2003 K2 (Christensen) recovered as 2008 X4 in STEREO images
Dec 13 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Zhangwei Jin reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21 Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 21 Michal Kusiak and Jiangao Ruan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 21 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 21 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 22 Rainer Kracht reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 22 Rainer Kracht reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 25 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 25 Andrea Boattini discovers faint comet 2008 Y1
Dec 27 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 28 Jiangao Ruan reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 29 Maik Meyer identifies P/2008 X1 with previously unreported comet 2003 F6
Dec 30 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Published by Jonathan Shanklin. Jon Shanklin - jds@ast.cam.ac.uk