British Astronomical Association
Comet Section


2012 News

Jan 01  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 01  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 05  Pan-STARRS discovers distant comet 2012 A1
Jan 06  Rob Matson reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 09  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 10  The Comet's Tale Number 31, January 2012 published
Jan 10  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 15  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 17  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 17  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 A2
Jan 18  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 19  Alan Watson reports a possible comet in STEREO H1B
Jan 23  Rainer Kracht links the STEREO comet with 2003 T12
Jan 26  Szymon Liwo reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Jan 27  PanSTARRS discovers comet designated as P/2012 B1
Jan 28  2003 HT15 (P/LINEAR) recovered as 2012 B2
Jan 28  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29  Masanori Uchina and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 29  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 30  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 02  The Catalina Sky Survey finds cometary features in asteroid 2011 VJ5
Feb 04  The La Sagra team discover comet 2012 B3
Feb 04  Masanori Uchina and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 04  Sergei Schmalz reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 04  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 06  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 09  Zhijian Xu and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 11  Szymon Liwo reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Feb 12  Manfred Bruenjes discovers comet 2012 C2
Feb 14  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 14  The Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey discovers comet 2012 CH17
Feb 16  PanSTARRS discovers periodic comet 2012 C3
Feb 19  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 22  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 25  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 28  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 28  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 28  Szymon Liwo and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 29  Krzysztof Kida reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02  The Mt Lemmon Survey finds cometary features in asteroid 2012 BJ98
Mar 04  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 05  Richard Hill discovers comet 2012 E1
Mar 08  Vladimir Bezugly reports a possible comet in SWAN images
Mar 11  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 12  Krzysztof Kida and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 15  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 16  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 E3
Mar 17  Zhijian Xu reports a pair of non-group comets in real time C2 images
Mar 18  Alex Gibbs discovers comet 2012 F1
Mar 18  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 F2
Mar 18  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 F3
Mar 22  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 22  2005 JY126 (P/Catalina) recovered as 2012 F4
Mar 25  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 25  Alex Gibbs discovers faint periodic comet 2012 F5
Mar 26  Mt Lemmon survey discovers comet 2012 F6
Mar 27  RAS Press Release on Space Weathering on 81P/Wild
Mar 30  Alan Watson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 31  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 03  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 05  Szymon Liwo and Krzysztof Kida report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 08  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10  Szymon Liwo reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 13  Sergei Schmalz and Krzysztof Kida  report a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 13  Object 2011 FR143 (P/Lemmon) confirmed as a comet
Apr 15  Krzysztof Kida reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 16  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 17  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 17  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 G1
Apr 18  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 19  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 19  67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko recovered by Richard Miles et al using the Faulkes Telescope
Apr 19  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 20  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 22  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 22  Szymon Liwo, Krzysztof Kida and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 23  Sergei Schmalz reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 23  Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 27  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 28  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Apr 28  Sergei Schmalz and Szymon Liwo report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 28  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 28  Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 29  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 30  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2012 H1
Apr 30  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 01  Sergei Schmalz and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 01  Zhijian Xu reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
May 02  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2012 H2
May 12  Salil Mulye, Sergei Schmalz, Szymon Liwo report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 14  Rob Matson reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 15  The Catalina Sky Survey discovers comet 2012 J1
May 15  Masanori Uchina, Szymon Liwo and Rafal Reszelewski report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 15  Salil Mulye reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 16  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 16  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 17  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 17  Cometary features found in 2011 KP36 (Spacewatch)
May 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 18  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 21  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 21  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2012 K1
May 21  M Masek recovers comet 2005 K3 (P/McNaught) as 2012 K2
May 23  Alex Gibbs discovers periodic comet 2012 K3
May 25  Bo Zhou reports a Marsden group comet in real time C3 images
May 25  Comet 2005 N3 recovered as 2012 K4
May 25  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
May 26  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 26  Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 27  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 28  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 K5.  It may reach 10th magnitude at the end of the year
May 29  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 30  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2012 K6
May 30  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
May 31  Comet 1994 X1 recovered as 2012 K7
Jun 02  Mt Lemmon Survey discovers comet 2012 K8
Jun 02  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 02  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 05  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 L1
Jun 05  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 L2
Jun 06  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 06  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 07  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 07  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 08  Azusa Nakano reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 09  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 10  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 10  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 image
Jun 11  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 L3
Jun 13  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 13  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 image
Jun 13  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 15  H Sato recovers 2006 Y2 (P/Gibbs) as 2012 K9
Jun 16  K Sarneczky recovers 2004 H3 (P/Larsen) as 2012 L4
Jun 16  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21  H Sato recovers 2003 O2 (P/LINEAR) as 2012 M1
Jun 23  Krzysztof Kida and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 23  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 24  Zhijian Xu and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 24  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 26  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 image
Jun 27  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 30  Rainer Kracht reports recovery of 1997 J6 = 2001 D1 = 2004 X7 = 2008 S2 (SOHO)
Jul 02  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 03  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 04  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 07  Sergei Schmalz and Masanori Uchina report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 08  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 09  Sergei Schmalz 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 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 13  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 13  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 14  Sergei Schmalz, Krzysztof Kida and Peiyuan Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 15  Liang Liu reports a fragment of 96P/Machholz in real time C2 images
Jul 15  Prafull Sharma reports a fragment of 96P/Machholz in real time C2 images
Jul 18  2012 NJ (P/La Sagra)found to be cometary
Jul 19  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 19  Salil Mulye reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 21  Rob McNaught discovers faint periodic comet 2012 O1
Jul 21  Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 21  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 23  Rob McNaught discovers faint periodic comet 2012 O2
Jul 25  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 26  Rob McNaught discovers faint periodic comet 2012 O3
Jul 29  Zhijian Xu and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 01  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 01  Zhijian Xu reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 02  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 07  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 07  bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet fragment in real time C3 images
Aug 07  David Herald images 1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) when 33 AU from the Sun
Aug 12  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 13  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 14  Sergei Schmalz and Tsumugi Kotobuki report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 18  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 19  Tsumugi Kotobuki and Sergei Schmalz report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 20  Peiyuan Sun reports a non group in real time C2 images
Aug 20  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 20  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 21  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 28  Bo Zhou reports a Kracht group comet in archival C2 images
Aug 31  Ritsu Tainaka and Krzysztof Kida report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 03  2006 U5 (P/Christensen) recovered as 2012 P1 at Majdanak
Sep 04  Richard Kowalski discovers distant comet 2012 Q1
Sep 06  Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 09  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 11  Pedro Maysonet reports a non group in real time C2 images
Sep 13  2006 Q2 (P/LONEOS) recovered as 2012 R1
Sep 13  2005 V1 (P/Bernardi)recovered as 2012 P2
Sep 17  Zhijian Xu reports three Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Sep 18  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 18  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 18  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 19  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 19  Liang Liu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 20  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 24  Comet 2012 S1 discovered at ISON.  It will be bright in November and December 2013
Sep 27  Faint periodic comet 2012 S2 discovered at La Sagra
Sep 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 29  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 01  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 02  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 S3
Oct 02  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2012 S4
Oct 03  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 03  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 03  1996 A1 (P/Jedicke) recovered as 2012 R2
Oct 05  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 08  1997 C1 (P/Gehrels) recovered as 2012 S5
Oct 09  Periodic comet 2012 SB6 discovered during the Mt Lemmon Survey
Oct 11  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2012 T1
Oct 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 13  Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 13  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 14  Hanjie Tan reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 16  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2012 T2
Oct 16  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2012 T3
Oct 16  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2012 T4
Oct 18  Terry Bressi discovers comet 2012 T5
Oct 18  Richard Kowalski discovers faint comet 2012 T6
Oct 18  Tomas Vorobjov discovers faint periodic comet 2012 T7
Oct 18  Periodic comet 2012 TK8 discovered at Tenagra
Oct 21  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 22  Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Oct 22  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 U1
Oct 23  Wenjie Gu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 23  Liang Liu and Peiyuan Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 25  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2012 U2
Oct 25  2012 TB36 discovered at Mt Lemmon found to show cometary features and then identified with P/van Houten
Oct 27  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 29  Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 29  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 30  Szymon Liwo, Krzysztof Kida and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 03  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 06  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2012 V1
Nov 08  Krzysztof Kida and Wenjie Gu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 08  LINEAR discovers 2012 V2
Nov 12  Karl Battams reports two Kreutz group comets in C2 images
Nov 13  Mt Lemmon recovers 2004 F1 (P/NEAT) as 2012 V3
Nov 13  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 13  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 14  Szymon Liwo, Krzysztof Kida and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 15  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 16  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 16  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 17  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 18  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 19  Krzysztof Kida reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 21  Zhijian Xu, Krzysztof Kida, Wenjie Gu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 24  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 25  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 25  Asteroid 2012 US27, discovered at Siding Spring, reclassified as a comet
Nov 26  Wenjie Gu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 26  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28  Szymon Liwo and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 29  Rob Matson discovers a comet in SWAN imagery
Nov 29  Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 02  SWAN comet identified with D/Pons-Gambart
Dec 02  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 02  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 03  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04  Asteroid 2012 WX32, discovered at Tenagra, reclassified as a comet
Dec 04  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 05  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 07  Giovanni Sostero passed away last night
Dec 07  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 08  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 12  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 X1
Dec 13  2012 WX32 linked to 1931 AN (Tombaugh)
Dec 14  Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Dec 16  PanSTARRS discovers comet 2012 X2
Dec 16  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 16  Masanori Uchina reports three Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Dec 17  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 17  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 17  Zhijian Xu and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 21  LINEAR discovers comet 2012 Y1
Dec 22  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 22  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 23  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 25  PanSTARRS incidentally recovers 1999 D1 (P/Hermann)
Dec 25  Happy Christmas!
Dec 27  Zhijian Xu reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 27  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 29  Sergey Shurpakov reports a non-group comets in real time C3 images
Dec 29  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 31  Masanori Uchina and Bo Zhou report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images

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