British Astronomical Association
Comet Section

2013 News

Jan 01  Happy New Year
Jan 01  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2012 Y3
Jan 03  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 03  Zhijian Xu and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 05  Comet 2013 A1 discovered at Siding Spring
Jan 05  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 07  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 08  Jim Scotti discovers periodic comet 2013 A2
Jan 10  Comet 2012 WA34 (P/Lemmon-PanSTARRS) announced
Jan 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 12  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 13  Sergey Shurpakov reports a non-group comets in real time C3 images
Jan 18  Spacewatch recovers 2005 YQ127 as 2013 A3
Jan 21  Spacewatch recovers 2006 K2 as 2013 B1
Jan 21  The Comet's Tale for 2012 published
Jan 23  Comet 2013 AL76 (P/Catalina) announced
Jan 23  Catalina Sky Survey discovers 2013 B2
Jan 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 28  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 30  Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 31  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 01  Sergey Shurpakov reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Feb 01  Szymon Liwo reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 03  Object 2013 BL76 discovered at Mt Lemmon
Feb 06  Spacewatch recovers 2004 H2 as 2013 C1
Feb 07  2012 LP26 discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory found to be cometary
Feb 08  Alan Watson reports a non-group comet in STEREO HI 1A
Feb 10  Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 15  Peiyuan Sun and Chenxi Lin report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 16  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 17  The Tenagra team discover distant periodic comet 2013 C2
Feb 18  Object 2013 CE31 discovered by Claudine Rinner at MOSS shown to be a periodic comet
Feb 19  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 19  Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu and Sergey Shurpakov report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 20  Paulo Holvorcem discovers periodic comet 2013 D1
Feb 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 08  Rob McNaught discovers distant comet 2013 E1
Mar 08  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 12  Several observers in the south of the UK report observations of 2011 L4
Mar 13  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 13  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 14  Szymon Liwo and Sergey Shurpakov report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 14  Masayuki Iwamoto discovers comet 2013 E2
Mar 15  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 17  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 21  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 23  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 24  Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2013 F1
Mar 26  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 28  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 29  Catalina Sky Survey discovers 2013 F2
Mar 31  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 01  Shishir Deshmukh reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 01  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 F3
Apr 04  Richard Kowalski discovers comet 2013 G1
Apr 07  Shishir Deshmukh reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 08  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 09  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 10  Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 10  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 G2
Apr 12  Zhijian Xu reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 12  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 14  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Apr 14  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2013 G3
Apr 16  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2013 G4
Apr 16  Catalina discover comet 2013 G5
Apr 16  Mt Lemmon discover comet 2013 G6
Apr 16  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 G7
Apr 16  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C3 images
Apr 18  Zhijian Xu reports three Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 19  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2013 G8
Apr 19  The Tenagra team discover faint comet 2013 G9
Apr 20  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 20  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 21  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 22  The La Sagra team discover comet 2013 H1
Apr 22  Zhijian Xu and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 23  Object 2012 OP noted to have cometary features
Apr 24  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in C3 images
Apr 25  Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2013 H2
Apr 25  Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 26  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 29  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 02  Object 2013 EV9 noted to have cometary features
May 03  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 04  2007 H1 (P/McNaught) recovered as 2013 J1
May 07  Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 08  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Szymon Liwo and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 11  Rob McNaught discovers periodic comet 2013 J2
May 11  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 J3
May 11  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 11  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 13  PanSTARRS discovers periodic comet 2013 J4
May 13  The Tenagra group discovers periodic comet 2013 EW90
May 13  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 15  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 15  Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 15  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 16  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 20  Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2013 J5
May 20  Eric Christensen discovers comet 2013 K1
May 21  The Catalina Sky Survey discovers comet 2013 J6
May 21  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 21  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 24  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 24  Hidetaka Sato recovers 2003 U2 (P/LINEAR) as 2013 K2
May 25  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 25  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 25  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 25  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 26  Peiyuan Sun and Rainer Kracht report a Marsden group comet (2002 R1 = 2008 A3)in real time C2 images
May 27  Peter Berrett reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 28  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 28  Zhijian Xu, Bo Zhou and Shishir Deshmukh report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 30  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 31  Hidetaka Sato recovers 2005 L4 (P/Christensen) as 2013 K3
May 31  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 01  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 01  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 04  Jim Scotti recovers 2006 R2 (P/Christensen) as 2013 L1
Jun 06  Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09  The Catalina Sky Survey discovers comet 2013 L2
Jun 09  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 10  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 13  Peiyuan Sun reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Jun 13  Object 2013 CU129 (P/PanSTARRS)shown to be a comet
Jun 14  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 16  Peiyuan Sun reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Jun 17  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 18  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 23  Peiyuan Sun and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 24  Peiyuan Sun, Krzysztof Kida and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 24  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 24  Zhijian Xu, Peiyuan Sun and Szymon Liwo report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 25  Szymon Liwo, Zhijian Xu and Peiyuan Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 26  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 05  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 05  Zhijian Xu and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 07  Linked orbit between 1819 W1 (P/Blanpain) and 2003 WY25 published
Jul 10  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 13  1998 U3 (P/Jager) recovered as 2013 N1
Jul 13  2003 S1 (P/NEAT) recovered as 2013 N2 by Gary Hug
Jul 13  PanSTARRS discovers 2013 N3
Jul 13  Gennady Borisov discovers 2013 N4
Jul 14  Sergey Shurpakov reports a non group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 16  Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 18  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 18  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 20  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 21  Pedro Maysonet and Peiyuan Sun report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 27  1998 Y2 (P/Li) recovered as 2013 O1
Jul 27  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2013 O2
Jul 27  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 O3
Jul 29  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 29  Jiandong Zhu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 29  Qinpo Zheng reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2013 N5
Aug 04  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2013 P1
Aug 07  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2013 P2
Aug 07  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 07  Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 10  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 16  Palomar Transient Factory discovers comet 2013 P3
Aug 18  Peiyuan Sun reports a bright Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 18  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 20  Peiyuan Sun reports a bright Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 22  Sergei Schmalz and Peiyuan Sun report a Kreutz group comet fragment in real time C3 images
Aug 24  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 25  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 25  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 26  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2013 P4
Aug 27  PanSTARRS discovers short period comet 2013 P5
Aug 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 04  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 09  Terry Lovejoy discovers 2013 R1
Sep 10  Albert Jones passed away today.  He was one of our oldest observers
Sep 10  (3552) Don Quixote found to have a coma and tail
Sep 14  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 14  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 16  Jim Scotti recovers 2006 XG16 as 2013 R2
Sep 17  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 18  Zhijian Xu and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 20  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 20  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 23  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 24  Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in HI1-A images
Sep 27  Catalina Sky Survey and PanSTARRS discover periodic comet 2013 R3
Sep 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 04  Catalina Sky Survey discover comet 2013 S1
Oct 05  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 07  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 07  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 08  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 08  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 08  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2013 T1
Oct 10  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 10  Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 12  Object 2013 TW5 discovered by Spacewatch found to be a comet
Oct 12  Szymon Liwo and Peiyuan Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 14  Szymon Liwo reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16  Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20  2012 X1 reported in outburst by Hidetaka Sato
Oct 22  Michael Schwartz discovers periodic comet 2013 T2
Oct 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 22  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 24  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 26  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 26  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 27  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 28  Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 30  Catalina Sky Survey discovers 18th magnitude comet 2013 U1
Oct 30  Paulo Holvorcem discovers 19th magnitude comet 2013 U2
Oct 30  Cometary activity confirmed in 2011 CR42
Oct 31  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 01  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 03  Szymon Liwo reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Nov 04  Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Nov 06  Cometary activity confirmed in 2013 US10
Nov 06  Andrea Boattini discovers 2013 V1
Nov 07  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 08  Gennady Borisov discovers 2013 V2
Nov 08  Vitali Nevski discovers 2013 V3
Nov 09  Zhijian Xu reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 14  Peiyuan Sun and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 15  Catalina Sky Survey discovers 18th magnitude comet 2013 V4
Nov 15  Comet 2013 V5 discovered at Oukaimeden Observatory by Michel Ory
Nov 17  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 20  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 22  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 23  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 24  Peiyuan Sun reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Nov 25  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 27  PanSTARRS discovers periodic comet 2013 W1
Nov 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 29  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 02  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 03  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 05  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 05  Comet 2013 W2 (PanSTARRS) announced
Dec 06  Salil Mulye reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 06  Comet 2013 X1 (PanSTARRS) announced
Dec 07  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 11  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 11  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 12  2013 TL117 found to be cometary
Dec 14  Recovery by Hidetaka Sato of 2008 A2 (P/LINEAR) as 2013 X2 announced
Dec 15  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 16  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 16  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 17  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20  Salil Mulye reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 20  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 24  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 24  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in C3 images
Dec 25  Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 25  Recovery of 2002 AR2 (P/LINEAR) by Jim Scotti announced as 2013 Y1
Dec 25  Wishing all readers a happy Christmas
Dec 29  Szymon Liwo reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images