British Astronomical Association
Comet Section
2010 News
Jan 02 Alan Watson reports a Kretuz group comet in STEREO images
Jan 02 Alan Watson reports three Kreutz group comets in delayed STEREO images
Jan 03 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 03 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 06 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 07 Jiangao Ruan reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Jan 07 Rik Hill discovers comet 2010 A1
Jan 08 LINEAR discovers faint periodic comet 2010 A2. It has an unusually short period.
Jan 08 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 09 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet fragment in real time C3 images
Jan 09 Rik Hill discovers comet 2010 A3
Jan 10 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time H11A images
Jan 11 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 12 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 14 Faint comet 2010 A4 discovered at Siding Spring
Jan 15 LINEAR discovers periodic comet 2010 A5
Jan 15 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 15 Jiangao Ruan and Alan Watson report two Kreutz group comets in delayed H11A images
Jan 15 Alan Watson reports two Kreutz group comets in delayed H11A images
Jan 16 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 19 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 20 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 22 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 23 Comet 2010 B1 discovered by R Cardinal
Jan 25 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 25 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 26 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 26 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 26 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 27 Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 27 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29 Masanori Uchina and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 06 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 07 Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 08 WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 B2
Feb 09 Jim Scotti discovers faint periodic comet 2010 C1
Feb 11 Bo Zhou and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 13 Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 15 Masanori Uchina reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 16 Asteroid 2009 WJ50 found by the La Sagra Sky Survey found to be cometary by WISE
Feb 19 Zhijian Xu and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 19 WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 D1
Feb 19 Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 21 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 21 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 05 WISE discovers faint comet 2010 D2
Mar 05 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in archival images from 2001 January 1
Mar 08 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 08 Bin Wang reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 09 WISE discovers faint comet 2010 D3
Mar 10 Unusual asteroid 2010 DG56 [WISE] shown to have cometary features
Mar 10 Jiangao Ruan and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 10 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 10 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time H1a images
Mar 11 Michal Kusiak and Bo Zhou report a bright Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images (also noted, but not reported, by J Shanklin)
Mar 12 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 12 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2010 E1
Mar 13 Faint comet 2010 D4 discovered by WISE
Mar 13 Periodic comet 2010 E2 discovered at the Jarnac Observatory
Mar 14 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 16 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 16 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 16 Faint comet 2010 E3 discovered by WISE
Mar 16 A 2002 asteroid found by LINEAR shown to be cometary - 2010 E4
Mar 17 Keith Nakonechny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 17 Catalina Sky Survey discovers retrograde asteroid 2010 EB46
Mar 17 Jim Scotti discovers comet 2010 E5
Mar 18 Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2010 F1
Mar 19 Maik Meyer discovers comet 2001 Q11
Mar 19 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 21 Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 21 Rob McNaught re-discovers 2002 FA9 as 2010 F2 (P/LINEAR)
Mar 22 Jiangao Ruan reports several archival comets in C3 images from 2000 and 2001
Mar 23 Jim Scotti discovers comet 2010 F3
Mar 24 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 24 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 25 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 27 Don Machholz visually discovers comet 2010 F4
Mar 27 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 29 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2008
Mar 31 Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 06 Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2010 G1
Apr 08 Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 12 Rik Hill discovers comet 2010 G2
Apr 13 Asteroid 2009 WX51 (Catalina) identified as cometary by WISE
Apr 15 Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 15 Michal Kusiak, Masanori Uchina and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 16 WISE discovers comet 2010 G3
Apr 17 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2010 H1
Apr 17 13th mag comet 2010 H2 discovered by Jan Vales at Crni Vrh
Apr 19 Jiangao Ruan reports a Marsden group comet 2010 H3 in real time C2 images
Apr 20 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C2 images
Apr 22 Jim Scotti discovers distant comet 2010 H4
Apr 23 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24 Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2010 FB87, designated from WISE observations
Apr 26 Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 27 Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 28 2009 UG89 confirmed as a comet
May 02 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 05 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 07 Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2010 J1
May 08 Jim Scotti discovers faint periodic comet 2010 H5
May 08 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 08 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 10 Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2010 J2
May 11 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 11 Rafal Reszelewski reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 11 Jiangao Ruan reports several Kreutz group comets in archival C3 images
May 12 Masanori Uchina and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 Keith Nakonechny and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 Jiangao Ruan and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 BAA observers note NEOCP object SW40j4 as cometary
May 13 NEOCP object confirmed as comet 2010 J3 (McMillan)
May 13 WISE discovers faint comet 2010 J4
May 14 Rob McNaught discovers comet 2010 J5
May 15 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18 Jiangao Ruan, Rob Matson report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22 Jiangao Ruan and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 22 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22 Comet 2003 UY275 recovered as 2010 K1 by Jim Scotti
May 26 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 27 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 30 Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
May 31 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 01 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 03 Jupiter has been hit by a small impactor
Jun 04 WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 K2
Jun 04 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 05 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 07 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08 WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 L1
Jun 11 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 13 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 13 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 15 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2002 February
Jun 16 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 17 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 17 Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 17 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images (the same as the C3 reported by Kaluzny)
Jun 20 Rainer Kracht reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21 Bo Zhou reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21 Bo Zhou reports a possible Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 21 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 23 WISE discovers faint comet 2010 L5
Jun 23 Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2010 M1
Jun 24 Keith Nakonechny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 06 Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Jul 10 WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 N1
Jul 13 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 16 Retrograde asteroid 2010 OR1 discovered
Jul 18 Michal Kusiak and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 19 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 20 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 23 WISE discovers asteroid in retrograde orbit
Jul 23 Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 23 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 24 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 27 P/2005 U1 (Read) recovered as 2010 N2
Jul 28 Retrograde asteroid 2010 OM101 disovered
Jul 29 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 30 WISE discovers short period retrograde asteroid
Jul 31 Michal Kusiak and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04 P/1999 XB69 (LINEAR) recovered as 2010 C2
Aug 06 2010 Edgar Wilson Awards go to Rui Yang, Xing Gao, Don Machholz and Jan Vales
Aug 09 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images (SOHO 1900)
Aug 12 P/2002 X2 recovered as 2010 P1
Aug 13 Tony Hoffman reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 13 Hanjie Tan reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 13 P/1999 U3 recovered as 2010 P2
Aug 16 P/1998 U4 recovered as 2010 P3
Aug 16 WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 P4
Aug 17 P/2003 S2 recovered as 2010 P5
Aug 21 Jim Scotti recovers P/2000 Y3 as 2010 Q1
Aug 23 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 25 Zhijian Xu and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 03 Rob Matson makes a precovery of P/2010 L1 as 2002 Q16
Sep 04 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06 Michal Kusiak and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06 LINEAR discovers faint comet 2010 R1
Sep 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 17 2010 R2 (P/La Sagra) discovered
Sep 19 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 19 Jiangao Ruan reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 20 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 21 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 21 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 24 LINEAR discovers comet 2010 S1
Sep 27 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 29 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 30 Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 01 Zhijian Xu and Jiangao Ruan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 02 Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 03 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 04 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 05 Masanori Uchina and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 05 Rob McNaught discovers faint periodic comet 2010 T1
Oct 12 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16 PANSTARRS discovers its first comet P/2010 T2
Oct 16 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 17 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 18 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 18 Andrea Boattini discovers faint comet P/2010 U1
Oct 18 Rik Hill discovers comet P/2010 U2
Oct 19 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 19 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 19 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 23 Rob Matson reports a Kracht group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 24 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 24 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 26 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 31 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 03 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 04 Binocular comet 2010 V1 discovered by Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami
Nov 04 The NASA Epoxi spacecraft successfully encounters 103P/Hartley
Nov 04 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 05 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 05 Andrea Boattini discovers distant comet 2010 U3
Nov 05 Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 08 Alan Watson reports two Kreutz group comets in STEREO images
Nov 09 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Michal Kusiak reports an archival Kreutz comet from March 1999
Nov 12 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 13 Michal Kusiak and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13 Masanori Uchina and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 14 Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 14 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO images
Nov 16 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 17 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 18 MPEC 2010-W10 gives the sad news that Brian Marsden has died
Nov 21 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 22 Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Nov 22 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO images
Nov 23 Cometary activity noted in 2010 KW7 (WISE)
Nov 25 Rob Matson reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 25 Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 26 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 01 Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO images
Dec 03 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04 Shishir Deshmukh reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04 Michal Kusiak and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 05 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 06 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Dec 06 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 07 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 08 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 09 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 09 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12 L Elenin discovers distant comet 2010 X1
Dec 12 Main belt asteroid (596) Scheila found with a coma
Dec 13 Alex Gibbs discovers comet P/2010 W1
Dec 13 Michal Kusiak and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 13 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 13 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 14 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 14 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 15 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 15 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 16 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 16 Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 16 Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 17 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 17 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 17 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Dec 17 Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 18 Zhijian Xu and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 19 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 19 Man-To Hui reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 20 Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 21 Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 22 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 26 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 26 Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images (SOHO 2000)
Dec 27 2002 VP94 (LINEAR) confirmed as a comet
Dec 27 Discovery of 2010 WK (LINEAR) announced
Dec 27 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Dec 28 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 29 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 31 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Published by Jonathan Shanklin. Jon Shanklin - jds@ast.cam.ac.uk