British Astronomical Association
Comet Section
2014 News
Jan 01 Happy New Year
Jan 07 Recovery of 2007 H3 (P/Garradd) at the Pierre Auger Observatory announced as 2014 A1
Jan 10 Discovery of 2013 Y2 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jan 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 14 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 14 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 16 Discovery of 2014 A2 (P/Hill) by Rik Hill announced
Jan 16 Discovery of 2014 A3 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jan 16 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 16 Discovery of 2014 A4 (SONEAR) announced
Jan 17 Publication of The Comet's Tale for 2014 January
Jan 20 Rosetta wakes up at 18:17
Jan 27 Discovery of 2014 A5 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jan 28 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 30 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 01 Discovery of 2014 B1 by Michael Schwartz announced
Feb 04 Discovery of 2014 C1 by the Teide Observatory Tenerife Asteroid Survey announced
Feb 06 Alan Watson reports a comet in real time STEREO images
Feb 08 Discovery of 2014 C2 (STEREO) announced
Feb 13 Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 14 Masanori Uchina and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 18 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO H1 images
Feb 19 Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 19 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 20 Discovery of 2014 C3 by NEOWISE reported
Feb 20 Cometary activity in 2013 YG46 reported
Feb 26 Cometary activity in 2014 AA52 reported
Feb 26 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 28 Recovery of 2008 J2 (P/Beshore) reported
Mar 01 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02 Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 02 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in H1 images
Mar 03 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 07 Zhijian Xu reports two Kracht group comets in real time C2 images
Mar 09 Discovery of 2014 D2 (P/Catalina-PanSTARRS) reported
Mar 12 Discovery of 2014 E1 (P/Larson) reported
Mar 14 Discovery of 2014 E2 (Jacques) reported
Mar 20 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 23 Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 24 Recovery of 2007 C1 (P/Christensen) reported
Mar 24 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Mar 24 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 25 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 27 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 29 Comet 2014 D2 linked to asteroid 2005 EL284
Mar 29 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 01 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 01 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 01 Discovery of 2014 F1 by Rik Hill reported
Apr 01 Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 01 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 02 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 02 Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 03 Comet 2014 F2 discovered at the Tenagra Observatory
Apr 05 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 05 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 07 Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 07 Discovery of 2014 G1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Apr 08 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Apr 10 2013 PE67 found to show cometary characteristics
Apr 10 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 10 2005 JQ7 (Catalina) recovered as 2014 G2. It may be the 300th comet to be numbered
Apr 11 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 12 Peiyuan Sun and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 13 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 14 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 14 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 17 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 17 Discovery of 2014 G3 (PanSTARRS) reported
Apr 18 Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C2 images
Apr 20 Peiyuan Sun reports three Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 20 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 22 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 22 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 25 Discovery of 2014 H1 (Christensen) reported
Apr 26 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Apr 29 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Apr 29 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 01 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
May 01 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 01 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 02 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 03 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 07 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 07 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 08 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 09 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 14 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 16 Discovery of 2014 J1 (Catalina) reported
May 17 Zhijian Xu reports a non group comet in real time C2 images
May 18 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 18 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 19 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 19 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 21 Recovery of 2001 BB50 (P/LINEAR-NEAT) as 2014 K1 reported
May 23 Discovery of cometary features in 2007 RJ236 giving designation of 2014 K2 (P/Lemmon-PanSTARRS)
May 23 Discovery of 2014 F3 (Sheppard-Trujillo) announced
May 23 Cometary status of 2013 UQ4 announced
May 23 Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 23 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 24 Orbit for SOHO comet 2008 Y12 = 2014 K3 published
May 24 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 25 Szymon Liwo 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 26 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 30 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 31 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 02 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 02 Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 02 Recovery of 2003 U3 (P/NEAT) as 2014 L1 reported
Jun 03 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 04 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 06 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 07 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 08 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09 Bill Bradfield, noted visual comet discovery died at age 86
Jun 10 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12 Peiyuan Sun and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15 Discovery of 2014 L2 (P/NEOWISE)reported
Jun 15 Discovery of 2014 L3 (P/Hill) reported
Jun 16 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 17 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 18 Recovery of 2008 Q2 (P/Ory) as 2014 L4 reported
Jun 18 72P/Denning-Fujikawa, last seen in 1978, recovered
Jun 23 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 25 Zhangwei Jin reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 25 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 27 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 28 Discovery of 2014 L5 (Lemmon) reported
Jun 29 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 29 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 01 Discovery of 2014 M1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Jul 01 Discovery of 2014 M2 (Christensen) reported
Jul 01 Discovery of 2014 M3 (Catalina) reported
Jul 01 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 02 Masanori Uchina and Trygve Prestgard report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a non group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 06 Recovery of 2004 V1 (P/Skiff) as 2014 N1 reported
Jul 07 Discovery of 2014 N2 (PanSTARRS) reported
Jul 07 Discovery of 2014 M4 (PanSTARRS) reported
Jul 07 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 07 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 09 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 11 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 11 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 13 Discovery of 2014 N3 (NEOWISE) reported
Jul 14 Recovery of 2003 O3 (P/LINEAR) as 2014 M5 reported
Jul 14 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 15 Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu and Worachate Boonplod report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 16 Bo Zhou reports a non group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 20 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 23 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 24 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 25 Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 26 Peiyuan Sun and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 27 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 27 Recovery of 2000 QJ46 (P/LINEAR) as 2014 O1 reported
Jul 28 Zhijian Xu and Worachate Boonplod report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 28 Discovery of 2014 MG4 (P/Spacewatch-PanSTARRS) reported
Jul 31 Worachate Boonplod reports a reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01 Worachate Boonplod reports a non group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 02 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 02 Discovery of 2014 OE4 (PanSTARRS) reported
Aug 05 Discovery of 2014 O3 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Aug 08 Zhangwei Jin reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 14 Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 18 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 19 Discovery of 2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Aug 19 Discovery of 2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) reported
Aug 19 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 21 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 22 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 24 Discovery of 2014 Q3 (Borisov) reported
Aug 24 Recovery of 2005 Q4 (P/LINEAR) as 2014 Q4 reported
Aug 25 Peiyuan Sun reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 26 Recovery of 2006 S6 (P/Hill) as 2014 Q5 reported
Aug 26 Zhijian Xu reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 31 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 31 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 31 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 01 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 02 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 04 Discovery of 2014 Q6 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 05 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 07 Discovery of 2014 R1 (Borisov) reported
Sep 07 Detection of the dust trail of 17P/Holmes reported
Sep 10 Masanori Uchina and Worachate Boonplod report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 12 Recovery of 2001 Q11 (P/NEAT) as 2014 R2 reported
Sep 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Kracht group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 14 Zhijian Xu reports a Kretuz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 16 Discovery of 2014 R3 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 17 Discovery of 2014 R4 (Gibbs) reported
Sep 17 Confirmation that 2014 QU2 (PanSTARRS) is a comet
Sep 17 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 18 Worachate Boonplod and Zhijian Xu report a Kretuz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 24 Discovery of 2014 R5 (P/Lemmon-PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 24 Discovery of 2014 S1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 24 Discovery of 2014 S2 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 24 Szymon Liwo reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 24 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 27 Discovery of 2014 S3 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 27 Discovery of 2014 S4 (P/Gibbs) reported
Sep 27 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 01 Outburst of 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann reported
Oct 05 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 12 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 14 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 14 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 15 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 15 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20 Outburst of 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann reported
Oct 20 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 21 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 24 Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 25 1997 G1 (P/Montani) recovered as 2014 U1
Oct 27 Discovery of comets 2014 U2 and 2014 U3 by Richard Kowalski reported
Oct 28 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 30 Tail detected on (62412)2000 SY178
Oct 30 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 30 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 01 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 06 Zhijian Xu reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 09 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 10 Discovery of comet 2014 U4 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 11 The countdown to release of Philae from Rosetta is ticking.
Nov 12 Philae lands (several times) - what an amazing achievement. Find out more from the BAA.
Nov 14 Discovery of comet 2014 V1 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 14 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 14 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 15 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 15 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 17 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 17 Michal Biesiada reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 19 Recovery of 2005 RV25 as 2014 U5 announced
Nov 19 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 20 A second fragment of 2011 J2 reported
Nov 20 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 20 Worachate Boonplod and Michal Biesiada report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 20 Worachate Boonplod reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 21 Discovery of comets 2014 W1 to W4 (PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 22 Discovery of comet 2014 W5 (Lemmon-PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 22 Discovery of comet 2014 W6 (Catalina) reported
Nov 22 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 24 Discovery of comet 2014 TG64 (Catalina) reported
Nov 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 26 Discovery of comet 2014 W7 (Christensen) reported
Nov 26 Discovery of comets 2014 W8 and 9 (PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 26 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 27 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 27 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 29 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 30 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 02 Worachate Boonplod reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 03 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 05 Discovery of 2014 W10 and 11 (PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 05 Discovery of 2014 W12 (Gibbs) reported
Dec 08 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 09 Szymon Liwo reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Dec 09 Worachate Boonplod reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 10 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 10 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12 Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 13 Reports of a fast moving naked eye comet are thought to relate to a fuel dump from a rocket launch
Dec 13 Discovery of 2014 X1 (P/Elenin) reported
Dec 19 Discovery of 2014 Y1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 22 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 24 Recovery of 2004 VR8 (P/LONEOS) as 2013 V6 reported
Dec 25 Merry Christmas
Dec 25 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 30 Discovery of 2014 XB8 (PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 31 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Published by Jonathan Shanklin. Jon Shanklin - jds@ast.cam.ac.uk