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