Wednesday 19 October 2011

Another fine comet...

So today our team picked up the usual round of NEO data from the Minor Planet Centre, and ...well one of them stood out just a bit... most likely, due to the orbit, it was going to be a comet...

So, thanks to a good mate who had time on the scope today, and a student at UCGLAM we managed to get about 40 minutes worth of time imaging it, and yup...it was a comet indeed...so...say hello to an as yet, un-named new comet..


1 comment:

  1. Little did we know until we ran the orbital calcs on this one, just how amazing a comet it would be!

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