Saturday, December 16, 2017
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
174/P Echeclus in outburst - 2017/12/10
On December 08, 2017 B. Skiff reported on mpml mailing list, that the centaur 174P/Echeclus (also known as 60558 Echeclus) "seems to be at least 4 mag brighter than expected, and indeed as it appeared at the start of last night's images. The Dec 7 series shows the outburst in progress on images taken near 2:00 and 2:48 UT; it is much brighter now (Dec 8 about 3:30 UT)". Last observations before this outburst had this object at around magnitude 18.
Friday, December 1, 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
New comet C/2017 T1 Heinze (PCCP A104nX1) - 2017/10/08
MPEC 2017-U15, issued on 2017, October 16, announce the discovery of a new comet has been designated C/20217 T1 HeinzeE.
A. Valvasori, performed follow-up measurements of this object while it was still on the PCCP webpage.
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
New comet C/2017 S3 PanSTARRS
New comet
C/2017 S3 (PANSTARRS) was discovered 2017-Aug-17 at magnitude 21.8 by the
Pan-STARRS survey.
The
object's retrograde orbit is inclined 99 degrees from the ecliptic with the
object currently at 4.9 AU from the sun.
The new
comet is expected to pass perihelion in mid-August 2018 at only 0.2 AU from the
sun. The ephemeris by the Minor Planet Center predicts a magnitude of 4.1 at
perihelion but at very low solar elongation.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Monday, September 4, 2017
Asteroid 3122 Florence - 2017/09/03
Nota storica: 3122 Florence è stato scoperto il 2 marzo 1981
da Schelte John Bus, dall'osservatorio di Siding Spring, sito vicino
Coonabarabran, nel Nuovo Galles del Sud, in Australia, come un oggetto di
magnitudine 17,5.[5] Furono in seguito trovate immagini di prescoperta
acquisite il 9 marzo del 1979.
L'asteroide fu così nominato in onore di Florence
Nightingale, un'infermiera britannica considerata la fondatrice dell'assistenza
infermieristica moderna.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Friday, September 1, 2017
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Monday, August 28, 2017
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Sunday, June 25, 2017
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