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Friday, November 23, 2012

Two Irregular Satellites of Jupiter

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The planetary satellites can be distinguished into two characteristic groups: regulars and irregulars. Satellites are classified as  “irreg...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

New Comet: C/2012 V2 (LINEAR)

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Cbet nr. 3290 , issued on 2012, November 08, announces the discovery of a new comet (discovery magnitude 19.0) by the LINEAR survey on i...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Follow-up of splitting event in Comet 168P

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Following our team's detection of a fragmentation event with comet 168P/Hergenrother on October 26, 2012, we requested via the Faulke...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Splitting event in comet 168P/Hergenrother

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Over the past few weeks, comet 168P/Hergenrother has been under intense scrutiny due to its strange behaviour, namely a 6 magnitude surge i...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

New Comet: C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS)

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Cbet nr. 3264 , issued on 2012, October 22, announces the discovery of a new comet (discovery magnitude 21.0) by Pan-STARRS Survey on imag...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Update on Comet 168P/Hergenrother

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Our team performed follow-up observations of comet 168P/Hergenrother on 2012, Oct. 22.4, remotely through the 2m, f/10 Ritchey-Chretien + ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

New Comet: P/2012 T7 (VOROBJOV)

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Cbet nr. 3260 , issued on 2012, October 18, announces the discovery of a new comet (discovery magnitude 20.1) by Tomas Vorobjov on three 1...