British Astronomical Association
Comet Section


2010 News

Jan 02  Alan Watson reports a Kretuz group comet in STEREO images
Jan 02  Alan Watson reports three Kreutz group comets in delayed STEREO images
Jan 03  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 03  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 06  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 07  Jiangao Ruan reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Jan 07  Rik Hill discovers comet 2010 A1
Jan 08  LINEAR discovers faint periodic comet 2010 A2.  It has an unusually short period.
Jan 08  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 09  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet fragment in real time C3 images
Jan 09  Rik Hill discovers comet 2010 A3
Jan 10  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time H11A images
Jan 11  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 12  Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 14  Faint comet 2010 A4 discovered at Siding Spring
Jan 15  LINEAR discovers periodic comet 2010 A5
Jan 15  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 15  Jiangao Ruan and Alan Watson report two Kreutz group comets in delayed H11A images
Jan 15  Alan Watson reports two Kreutz group comets in delayed H11A images
Jan 16  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 19  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 20  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 22  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 23  Comet 2010 B1 discovered by R Cardinal
Jan 25  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 25  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 26  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 26  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 26  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed H11A images
Jan 27  Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 27  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29  Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29  Masanori Uchina and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 06  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 07  Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 08  WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 B2
Feb 09  Jim Scotti discovers faint periodic comet 2010 C1
Feb 11  Bo Zhou and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 13  Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 15  Masanori Uchina reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 16  Asteroid 2009 WJ50 found by the La Sagra Sky Survey found to be cometary by WISE
Feb 19  Zhijian Xu and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 19  WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 D1
Feb 19  Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 21  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 21  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 05  WISE discovers faint comet 2010 D2
Mar 05  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in archival images from 2001 January 1
Mar 08  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 08  Bin Wang reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 09  WISE discovers faint comet 2010 D3
Mar 10  Unusual asteroid 2010 DG56 [WISE] shown to have cometary features
Mar 10  Jiangao Ruan and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 10  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 10  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time H1a images
Mar 11  Michal Kusiak and Bo Zhou report a bright Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images (also noted, but not reported, by J Shanklin)
Mar 12  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 12  Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2010 E1
Mar 13  Faint comet 2010 D4 discovered by WISE
Mar 13  Periodic comet 2010 E2 discovered at the Jarnac Observatory
Mar 14  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 16  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 16  Faint comet 2010 E3 discovered by WISE
Mar 16  A 2002 asteroid found by LINEAR shown to be cometary - 2010 E4
Mar 17  Keith Nakonechny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 17  Catalina Sky Survey discovers retrograde asteroid 2010 EB46
Mar 17  Jim Scotti discovers comet 2010 E5
Mar 18  Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2010 F1
Mar 19  Maik Meyer discovers comet 2001 Q11
Mar 19  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 21  Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 21  Rob McNaught re-discovers 2002 FA9 as 2010 F2 (P/LINEAR)
Mar 22  Jiangao Ruan reports several archival comets in C3 images from 2000 and 2001
Mar 23  Jim Scotti discovers comet 2010 F3
Mar 24  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 24  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 25  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 27  Don Machholz visually discovers comet 2010 F4
Mar 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 29  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2008
Mar 31  Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 06  Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2010 G1
Apr 08  Hua Su reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 12  Rik Hill discovers comet 2010 G2
Apr 13  Asteroid 2009 WX51 (Catalina) identified as cometary by WISE
Apr 15  Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 15  Michal Kusiak, Masanori Uchina and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 16  WISE discovers comet 2010 G3
Apr 17  Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2010 H1
Apr 17  13th mag comet 2010 H2 discovered by Jan Vales at Crni Vrh
Apr 19  Jiangao Ruan reports a Marsden group comet 2010 H3 in real time C2 images
Apr 20  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C2 images
Apr 22  Jim Scotti discovers distant comet 2010 H4
Apr 23  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Gordon Garradd discovers faint comet 2010 FB87, designated from WISE observations
Apr 26  Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 27  Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 28  2009 UG89 confirmed as a comet
May 02  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 05  Arkadiusz Kubczak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 07  Andrea Boattini discovers comet 2010 J1
May 08  Jim Scotti discovers faint periodic comet 2010 H5
May 08  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 08  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Rob McNaught discovers faint comet 2010 J2
May 11  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 11  Rafal Reszelewski reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 11  Jiangao Ruan reports several Kreutz group comets in archival C3 images
May 12  Masanori Uchina and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12  Keith Nakonechny and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12  Jiangao Ruan and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 12  BAA observers note NEOCP object SW40j4 as cometary
May 13  NEOCP object confirmed as comet 2010 J3 (McMillan)
May 13  WISE discovers faint comet 2010 J4
May 14  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2010 J5
May 15  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18  Jiangao Ruan, Rob Matson report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22  Jiangao Ruan and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 22  Comet 2003 UY275 recovered as 2010 K1 by Jim Scotti
May 26  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 27  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 30  Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
May 31  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 01  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 03  Jupiter has been hit by a small impactor
Jun 04  WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 K2
Jun 04  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 05  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 07  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08  Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08  WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 L1
Jun 11  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 12  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 13  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 15  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 15  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in archival C3 images from 2002 February
Jun 16  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 17  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 17  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 17  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images (the same as the C3 reported by Kaluzny)
Jun 20  Rainer Kracht reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21  Bo Zhou reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21  Bo Zhou reports a possible Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 21  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 23  WISE discovers faint comet 2010 L5
Jun 23  Alex Gibbs discovers faint comet 2010 M1
Jun 24  Keith Nakonechny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 06  Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Jul 10  WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 N1
Jul 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 16  Retrograde asteroid 2010 OR1 discovered
Jul 18  Michal Kusiak and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 19  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 20  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 23  WISE discovers asteroid in retrograde orbit
Jul 23  Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 23  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 24  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 27  P/2005 U1 (Read) recovered as 2010 N2
Jul 28  Retrograde asteroid 2010 OM101 disovered
Jul 29  Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 30  WISE discovers short period retrograde asteroid
Jul 31  Michal Kusiak and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04  P/1999 XB69 (LINEAR) recovered as 2010 C2
Aug 06  2010 Edgar Wilson Awards go to Rui Yang, Xing Gao, Don Machholz and Jan Vales
Aug 09  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images (SOHO 1900)
Aug 12  P/2002 X2 recovered as 2010 P1
Aug 13  Tony Hoffman reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 13  Hanjie Tan reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 13  P/1999 U3 recovered as 2010 P2
Aug 16  P/1998 U4 recovered as 2010 P3
Aug 16  WISE discovers faint periodic comet 2010 P4
Aug 17  P/2003 S2 recovered as 2010 P5
Aug 21  Jim Scotti recovers P/2000 Y3 as 2010 Q1
Aug 23  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 25  Zhijian Xu and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 03  Rob Matson makes a precovery of P/2010 L1 as 2002 Q16
Sep 04  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06  Michal Kusiak and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 06  LINEAR discovers faint comet 2010 R1
Sep 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 17  2010 R2 (P/La Sagra) discovered
Sep 19  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 19  Jiangao Ruan reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 20  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 21  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 21  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 24  LINEAR discovers comet 2010 S1
Sep 27  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 29  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 30  Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 01  Zhijian Xu and Jiangao Ruan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 02  Michal Kusiak reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 03  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 04  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 05  Masanori Uchina and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 05  Rob McNaught discovers faint periodic comet 2010 T1
Oct 12  Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16  PANSTARRS discovers its first comet P/2010 T2
Oct 16  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 17  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 18  Andrea Boattini discovers faint comet P/2010 U1
Oct 18  Rik Hill discovers comet P/2010 U2
Oct 19  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 19  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 19  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 23  Rob Matson reports a Kracht group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 24  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 24  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 26  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 31  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 03  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 04  Binocular comet 2010 V1 discovered by Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami
Nov 04  The NASA Epoxi spacecraft successfully encounters 103P/Hartley
Nov 04  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 05  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 05  Andrea Boattini discovers distant comet 2010 U3
Nov 05  Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 08  Alan Watson reports two Kreutz group comets in STEREO images
Nov 09  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11  Michal Kusiak reports an archival Kreutz comet from March 1999
Nov 12  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 13  Michal Kusiak and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13  Masanori Uchina and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 14  Rainer Kracht reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 14  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO images
Nov 16  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 17  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 18  MPEC 2010-W10 gives the sad news that Brian Marsden has died
Nov 21  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 22  Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Nov 22  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO images
Nov 23  Cometary activity noted in 2010 KW7 (WISE)
Nov 25  Rob Matson reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 25  Masanori Uchina reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 26  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 01  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in STEREO images
Dec 03  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04  Shishir Deshmukh reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04  Michal Kusiak and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 05  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 06  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Dec 06  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 07  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 08  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 09  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 09  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12  L Elenin discovers distant comet 2010 X1
Dec 12  Main belt asteroid (596) Scheila found with a coma
Dec 13  Alex Gibbs discovers comet P/2010 W1
Dec 13  Michal Kusiak and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 14  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 14  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 15  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 15  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 16  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 16  Rainer Kracht reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 16  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 17  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 17  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 17  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Dec 17  Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 18  Zhijian Xu and Michal Kusiak report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 19  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 19  Man-To Hui reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 20  Michal Kusiak reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Dec 20  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 21  Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 22  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 26  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 26  Michal Kusiak reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images (SOHO 2000)
Dec 27  2002 VP94 (LINEAR) confirmed as a comet
Dec 27  Discovery of 2010 WK (LINEAR) announced
Dec 27  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Dec 28  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 29  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 31  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images


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