British Astronomical Association
Comet Section

2013 News

Jan 01  Happy New Year
Jan 01  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2012 Y3
Jan 03  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 03  Zhijian Xu and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 05  Comet 2013 A1 discovered at Siding Spring
Jan 05  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 07  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 08  Jim Scotti discovers periodic comet 2013 A2
Jan 10  Comet 2012 WA34 (P/Lemmon-PanSTARRS) announced
Jan 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 12  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 13  Sergey Shurpakov reports a non-group comets in real time C3 images
Jan 18  Spacewatch recovers 2005 YQ127 as 2013 A3
Jan 21  Spacewatch recovers 2006 K2 as 2013 B1
Jan 21  The Comet's Tale for 2012 published
Jan 23  Comet 2013 AL76 (P/Catalina) announced
Jan 23  Catalina Sky Survey discovers 2013 B2
Jan 28  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 28  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 30  Peiyuan Sun reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 31  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 01  Sergey Shurpakov reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C3 images
Feb 01  Szymon Liwo reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 03  Object 2013 BL76 discovered at Mt Lemmon
Feb 06  Spacewatch recovers 2004 H2 as 2013 C1
Feb 07  2012 LP26 discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory found to be cometary
Feb 08  Alan Watson reports a non-group comet in STEREO HI 1A
Feb 10  Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu and Krzysztof Kida report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 12  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 15  Peiyuan Sun and Chenxi Lin report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 16  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 17  The Tenagra team discover distant periodic comet 2013 C2
Feb 18  Object 2013 CE31 discovered by Claudine Rinner at MOSS shown to be a periodic comet
Feb 19  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 19  Peiyuan Sun, Zhijian Xu and Sergey Shurpakov report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 20  Paulo Holvorcem discovers periodic comet 2013 D1
Feb 23  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 08  Rob McNaught discovers distant comet 2013 E1
Mar 08  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 12  Several observers in the south of the UK report observations of 2011 L4
Mar 13  Krzysztof Kida reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 13  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 14  Szymon Liwo and Sergey Shurpakov report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 14  Masayuki Iwamoto discovers comet 2013 E2
Mar 15  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 17  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 21  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 22  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 23  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 24  Andreas Boattini discovers comet 2013 F1
Mar 26  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 28  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 29  Catalina Sky Survey discovers 2013 F2
Mar 31  Marek Kaluzny reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 01  Shishir Deshmukh reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 01  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 F3
Apr 04  Richard Kowalski discovers comet 2013 G1
Apr 07  Shishir Deshmukh reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 08  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 09  Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 10  Masanori Uchina reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 10  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 G2
Apr 12  Zhijian Xu reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 12  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 14  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Apr 14  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2013 G3
Apr 16  PanSTARRS discovers faint periodic comet 2013 G4
Apr 16  Catalina discover comet 2013 G5
Apr 16  Mt Lemmon discover comet 2013 G6
Apr 16  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 G7
Apr 16  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 18  Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in C3 images
Apr 18  Zhijian Xu reports three Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Apr 19  PanSTARRS discovers faint comet 2013 G8
Apr 19  The Tenagra team discover faint comet 2013 G9
Apr 20  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 20  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 21  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 22  The La Sagra team discover comet 2013 H1
Apr 22  Zhijian Xu and Rainer Kracht report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 23  Object 2012 OP noted to have cometary features
Apr 24  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 24  Sergey Shurpakov reports a Kreutz group comet in C3 images
Apr 25  Andreas Boattini discovers comet 2013 H2
Apr 25  Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 26  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 27  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 29  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 02  Object 2013 EV9 noted to have cometary features
May 03  Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 04  2007 H1 (P/McNaught) recovered as 2013 J1
May 07  Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 08  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 10  Szymon Liwo and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 11  Rob McNaught discovers periodic comet 2013 J2
May 11  Rob McNaught discovers comet 2013 J3
May 11  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 11  Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 13  PanSTARRS discovers periodic comet 2013 J4
May 13  The Tenagra group discovers periodic comet 2013 EW90
May 13  Pedro Maysonet reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 15  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 15  Eryk Banach reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 15  Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 16  Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images