SOHO Comets 2013

The table list the provisional number for the comet, the day (UT) and month of the first (discovery) observation, the year and comet identification, the LASCO or STEREO coronagraph on which it was discovered, the discoverer (additional names are independent discoverers), with the number of their discoveries given in brackets following the name, and finally the date of discovery.

SOHO Observed   Des C  G  Observers							Discovered
P    03/01/2013     C3 K  Masanori Uchina						January 3
P    04/01/2013     C3 K  Zhijian Xu, Krzysztof Kida					January 4
P    05/01/2013     C3 K  Pedro Maysonet						January 5
P    07/01/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							January 7
P    12/01/2013     C3 K  Zhijian Xu							January 12
P    12/01/2013     C3 K  Szymon Liwo							January 12
P    13/01/2013     C3 O  Sergey Shurpakov						January 13
P    28/01/2013     C3 K  Zhijian Xu							January 28
P    28/01/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							January 28
P    30/01/2013     C2 Y  Peiyuan Sun							January 30
P    31/01/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							January 31
P    01/02/2013     C3 K  Sergey Shurpakov						February 1
P    01/02/2013     C3 K  Sergey Shurpakov						February 1
P    01/02/2013     C3 O  Szymon Liwo							February 1
C    05/02/2013     T1 O  Alan Watson							February 8
P    10/02/2013     C3 K  Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu, Krzysztof Kida			February 10
P    12/02/2013     C3 K  Zhijian Xu							February 12
P    15/02/2013     C3 K  Peiyuan Sun, Chenxi Lin					February 15
P    16/02/2013     C3 K  Szymon Liwo							February 16
P    19/02/2013     C3 K  Peiyuan Sun							February 19
P    19/02/2013     C3 K  Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu, Sergey Shurpakov			February 19
P    23/02/2013     C3 K  Zhijian Xu							February 23
P    02/03/2013     C2 Y  Bo Zhou							March 2
P    07/03/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							March 8
P    13/03/2013     C3 K  Krzysztof Kida						March 13
P    13/03/2013     C2 K  Bo Zhou							March 13
P    14/03/2013     C3 K  Szymon Liwo, Sergey Shurpakov					March 14
P    15/03/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							March 16
P    16/03/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							March 16
P    17/03/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							March 17
P    18/03/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							March 18
P    21/03/2013     C3 K  Sergey Shurpakov						March 21
P    22/03/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						March 22
P    23/03/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						March 23
P    26/03/2013     C3 K  Masanori Uchina						March 26
P    28/03/2013     C3 K  Marek Kaluzny							March 28
P    31/03/2013     C2 K  Marek Kaluzny							March 31
P    01/04/2013     C2 K  Shishir Deshmukh						April 1
P    07/04/2013     C2 K  Shishir Deshmukh						April 7
P    08/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 8
P    09/04/2013     C3 Y  Zhijian Xu							April 9
P    10/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 10
P    10/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 10
P    12/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 12
P    12/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 12
P    12/04/2013     C2 K  Szymon Liwo							April 12
P    12/04/2013     C2 K  Bo Zhou							April 12
P    16/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 16
P    18/04/2013     C3 K  Bo Zhou							April 18
P    18/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 18
P    18/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 18
P    18/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 18
P    20/04/2013     C2 K  Pedro Maysonet						April 20
P    20/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 20
P    21/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 21
P    22/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu, Rainer Kracht					April 22
P    24/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 24
P    24/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 24
P    24/04/2013     C3 K  Sergey Shurpakov						April 24
P    25/04/2013     C2 K  Trygve Prestgard						April 25
P    26/04/2013     C2 K  Masanori Uchina						April 26
P    27/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 27
P    29/04/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							April 29
P    03/05/2013     C2 Y  Bo Zhou							May 3
P    07/05/2013     C2 K  Eryk Banach							May 7
P    08/05/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							May 8
P    10/05/2013     C3 K  Szymon Liwo, Zhijian Xu					May 10
P    11/05/2013     C2 K  Peiyuan Sun							May 11
P    11/05/2013     C2 K  Szymon Liwo							May 11
P    13/05/2013     C3 K  Pedro Maysonet						May 13
P    15/05/2013     C2 K  Peiyuan Sun							May 15
P    15/05/2013     C2 K  Eryk Banach							May 15
P    15/05/2013     C2 K  Zhijian Xu							May 15
P    16/05/2013     C2 K  Peiyuan Sun							May 16
P    21/05/2013     C3 K  Zhijian Xu							May 21
P    21/05/2013     C2 K  Bo Zhou							May 21
The column headed Des is the half month or other designation of the comet. The column headed C gives the SOHO instrument (C2 or C3 for the LASCO coronagraphs, SW for SWAN, T1 or T2 for STEREO) that the comet was discovered in. The column headed G indicates if it is a provisional member of the Kreutz group (K), Meyer group (Y), Marsden group (D), Kracht (R) or other comet (O). P in the SOHO number column indicates the discovery is pending, C indicates that it is confirmed, but not yet numbered, U indicates that is was not confirmed, X that it was confirmed, but there were insufficient observations.

Note that my observer count also includes X/ comets which are not counted as confirmed comets by the SOHO team. Where two or more people report discoveries nearly simultaneously, up to the first three observers are credited here. Where discoverers are clearly not following the SOHO or BAA Comet Section guidelines, they are not credited here at all. If initial reports don't include sufficient positions others may also be credited.

Official milestones:

It is possible that there are further comets to be found in the archival data, most likely non-group comets, but there may still be some Kreutz comets.


Published by Jonathan Shanklin. Jon Shanklin - jds@ast.cam.ac.uk