British Astronomical Association
Comet Section


2006 News

Jan 01  Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2005 Y2
Jan 02  Rainer Kracht reports another archival Kracht group comet from December 1996
Jan 02  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 04  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 04  12th magnitude object at high southern declination on NEOCP
Jan 05  Object confirmed as comet 2006 A1 (Pojmanski)
Jan 06  New comet found by Rik Hill identified with LONEOS asteroid 2005 XA54
Jan 06  Centaur asteroid (60558) 2000 EC98 found to have a coma
Jan 10  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10  Unusual asteroid 2005 YQ127 discovered by LINEAR shown to have cometary characteristics
Jan 12  Steve Farmer and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 20  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 22  Rainer Kracht reports a bright Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 24  Catalina Sky Survey discover another faint, distant comet 2006 A2
Jan 26  Unusual asteroid 2006 BZ8 has 16 year, retrograde orbit
Jan 26  Hua Su reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 26  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jan 28  Comet 2000 C1 (Hergenrother) recovered as 2006 A3
Jan 30  Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2006 B1
Jan 30  Karl Battams and Quanzhi Ye report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 02  Rainer Kracht reports two Kreutz comets from archival C3 images in 1996
Feb 07  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 08  Asteroid 2005 SB216 discovered by LONEOS shown to have cometary features
Feb 08  Unusual asteroid 2006 CK10 in retrograde orbit
Feb 09  Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 10  Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 14  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C3 images from 1997
Feb 16  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images (SOHO-1100)
Feb 18  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C3 images from 1997
Feb 20  Steve Farmer and Quanzhi Ye report a Kreutz comet in C3 images
Feb 21  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 24  Rik Hill discovers faint periodic comet 2006 D1 during the Catalina SS
Feb 27  Sebastian Hoenig and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Feb 28  Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02  2006 CK10 shown to have cometary characteristics
Mar 06  Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer comet in archival C2 images from 1998
Mar 08  Four additional fragments of 73P observed, total now 7
Mar 09  Asteroid 2006 EX52 in long period retrograde orbit
Mar 09  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C2 images from 1998
Mar 11  Rainer Kracht reports a possible non group comet in archival C2 images from 1997
Mar 12  Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in archival C2 images from 1997
Mar 13  Hua Su and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 15  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 image
Mar 15  Rob Matson reports a Marsden comet in real time C3 images
Mar 16  Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag comet 2006 E1
Mar 16  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C2 images from 1998
Mar 18  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz comet in archival C3 images from 1998
Mar 21  Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 22  Tony Hoffman reports a Meyer comet in real time C2 images
Mar 23  R Kowalski discovers 18th mag comet 2006 F1 during the Mt Lemon survey
Mar 24  E Christensen discovers 20th mag periodic comet 2006 F2 during the Mt Lemon survey
Mar 24  A further two components of 73P reported, total now 9
Mar 26  Tony Hoffman reports a Marsden comet in real time C2 images
Mar 28  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Mar 28  Another four components of 73P reported, total now 13
Mar 29  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Mar 30  20th magnitude periodic comet 2006 F4 discovered by Spacewatch
Apr 03  Another 5 components of 73P have been detected, with component B in outburst
Apr 07  Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag comet 2006 G1
Apr 08  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10  Asteroid 2006 GZ2 in retrograde orbit
Apr 11  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 14  John Sachs and Hua Su report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 17  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19  Karl Battams reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19  Asteroid 2006 GZ2 confirmed as cometary
Apr 21  Adam Ambrus reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Apr 24  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Themis-family asteroid 118401 found to have a tail
Apr 25  Two more components of 73P reported - AQ & AR
Apr 26  Two more components of 73P reported - AS & AT
Apr 28  Hua Su and John Sachs report a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Apr 28  Sunskirting asteroid 2006 HY51 discovered
Apr 29  Nineteen more components of 73P reported, AU - BM
May 01  Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag periodic comet
May 03  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 04  Tony Hoffman, Piaoyang Cui & Hua Su report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 04  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 06  Four more components of 73P reported, BN - BQ
May 08  Karl Battams reports a Kreutz comet in yesterday's C3 images
May 08  Hua Su reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 and C3 images
May 08  Rob Matson and John Sachs report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images (unconfirmed)
May 10  Tony Hoffman reports a double Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Hua Su and Tao Chen report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 11  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 11  John Sachs reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 15  Guoyou Sun and Mike Boschat report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 17  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
May 18  Luciano Cane and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 18  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2006 K1
May 18  Bo Zhou and Rob Matson report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 19  Two more components of 73P reported, BR - BS
May 19  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 20  Wentao Xu, Hua Su and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 20  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 22  Hua Su reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
May 22  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 22  Hua Su, Rob Matson and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 23  Rob McNaught discovers 18th mag periodic comet 2006 K2
May 24  Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 24  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 24  Rob McNaught discovers 17th mag comet 2006 K3
May 24  NEAT discovers 20th mag comet 2006 K4
May 25  Tao Chen reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 25  Rob Matson reports two Kreutz comets in real time C2 images
May 26  Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 26  Hua Su reports a non group comet in archival C2 images from December 1999
May 29  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 29  Tao Chen, Hua Su and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
May 29  Vladimir Bezugly reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jun 02  Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in C2 images
Jun 03  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in archival C2 images from November 1999
Jun 05  Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 05  Unusual asteroid 2006 HW51 found to have a coma
Jun 07  Gordon Garradd finds 18th mag comet 2006 L1
Jun 08  Unusual asteroid 2006 LM1 in retrograde orbit found during the Mt Lemon survey
Jun 08  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09  Guoyou Sun reports a Kreutz comet in C2 images
Jun 10  Tony Hoffman and Hua Su report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 14  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 15  Rob McNaught discovers 14th magnitude comet 2006 L2
Jun 16  Tao Chen and John Sachs report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 19  Tony Hoffman, Guoyou Sun and Tao Chen report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 22  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2006 M1
Jun 22  Spacewatch discovers faint comet 2006 M2
Jun 22  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 24  Comet 1889 M1 (P/Barnard) recovered
Jun 27  Secondary body appears to be source of activity for 174P/Echeclus
Jun 27  Tao Chen, Hua Su and Piaoyang Cui report a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jun 27  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in C2 images from June 25
Jul 11  Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 12  New comet 2006 M4 found in SOHO/SWAN images
Jul 13  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 14  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C2 images
Jul 14  Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 17  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 17  Comet 1999 X1 (Hug-Bell) recovered as 2006 O1
Jul 17  Edgar Wilson awards to Charles Juels, Paulo Holvorcem and John Broughton announced
Jul 20  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 21  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 23  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 25  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Jul 26  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01  Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2006 O2
Aug 01  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 02  Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 02  Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images (not confirmed)
Aug 03  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03  Asteroid 2006 HR30 (Siding Spring) shown to be a comet
Aug 03  Hua Su reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03  Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04  Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz comet (the 1000th) in real time C3 images
Aug 08  Rob McNaught discovers new comet 2006 P1
Aug 23  Rob McNaught discovers new comet 2006 Q1
Aug 30  Peter Birtwistle recovers comet 76P/
Aug 31  Faint periodic comet 2006 Q2 discovered by LONEOS
Sep 02  Hua Su reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 03  Comet 2006 R1 discovered at Siding Spring
Sep 11  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15  David Storey has recovered 2006 M4 post conjunction
Sep 15  Eric Christensen discovers faint periodic comet 2006 R2
Sep 17  Eric Christensen discovers faint periodic comet 2006 S1
Sep 18  Rob Matson reports five Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Sep 18  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 19  Faint comet 2006 S2 discovered by LINEAR
Sep 21  LONEOS discovers faint comet 2006 S3
Sep 23  Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2006 S4
Sep 26  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 29  Rik Hill discovers two faint comets, 2006 S5 and 2006 S6
Sep 29  2006 OF2 confirmed as a comet
Oct 02  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C3 images
Oct 02  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 03  Hua Su and Vladimir Bezugly report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2/C3 images
Oct 03  Guoyou Sun and Tao Chen report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 03  David Levy discovers 11th mag comet 2006 T1
Oct 06  Wentao Xu and Guoyou Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 10  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 10  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 12  2005 YW (LINEAR) confirmed as a comet
Oct 15  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 16  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in near real time C2 images
Oct 17  Toni Scarmato and Tony Hoffman report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 17  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images from October 12
Oct 19  Steve Farmer reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20  Tony Hoffman reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 21  LINEAR discovers a faint short-period comet 2006 U1
Oct 23  Jim Scotti recovers P/Jedicke as 2006 U2
Oct 24  2001 K1 (P/NEAT) recovered as 2006 U3
Oct 24  Hua Su and Shihong Yuan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 24  Tao Chen and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 25  STEREO spacecraft launched
Oct 25  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 27  2001 V1 (P/Shoemaker-Levy) recovered as 2006 U4
Oct 29  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 29  Luciano Cane reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 29  Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2006 U5
Oct 30  Tao Chen, Rainer Kracht and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 30  Spacewatch discovers faint comet 2006 U6
Oct 30  Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2006 U7
Oct 30  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C2 images from October 2003
Nov 01  John Sachs reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 02  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C2 images from April 2003
Nov 03  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 03  Hua Su and Rob Matson report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 05  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2003 January
Nov 07  Tony Hoffman, Wentao Xu and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 08  Hua Su and Vladimir Bezugly report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11  Rainer Kracht and Hua Su report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 13  Hua Su and Rob Matson report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 15  Catalina Sky Survey discovers faint comet 2006 V1
Nov 16  Asteroid 2006 VZ13 discovered in 40 year retrograde orbit
Nov 18  Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2006 W1
Nov 19  Weak enhancement of Leonid meteors around 05:00 UT
Nov 19  Tony Hoffman reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Nov 20  Eric Christensen recovers 2001 WF2 (P/LONEOS) as 2006 W2
Nov 20  Eric Christensen discovers faint comet 2006 W3
Nov 20  Possible comet in SWAN images reported by Rob Matson and Toni Scarmato [not confirmed]
Nov 22  Asteroid 2006 WD4 discovered with retrograde orbit and perihelion at 0.5 AU
Nov 24  Rik Hill discovers faint periodic comet 2006 W4
Nov 25  Rainer Kracht and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 01  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2003 Feb 08
Dec 04  2006 VZ13 confirmed as a comet
Dec 09  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 10  Maik Meyer reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 10  Tony Scarmato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 10  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 11  Xing Gao reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 12  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12  LINEAR discovers faint distant comet 2006 X1
Dec 15  Tony Hoffman and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 15  Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 15  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18  Shihong Yuan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20  Rainer Kracht, Hua Su and Shihong Yuan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20  Catalina Sky Survey and Eric Christensen discover distant comet 2006 YC
Dec 20  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 20  Eric Christensen recovers comet 1999 DN3 (P/Korlevic-Juric) as 2006 Y1
Dec 21  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 21  Rainer Kracht and Tony Hoffman report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21  Michele Mazzucato and Tony Scarmato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 22  Giovanni Sostero reports the possible recovery of 87P/Bus
Dec 23  Tony Hoffman reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images [this turned out to be the same comet]
Dec 24  Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 27  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 28  Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 28  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 28  Alex Gibbs discovers a faint comet 2006 Y2
Dec 29  Wentao Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 29  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 29  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images

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