Outburst of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks – Preliminary report
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type comet with a period of 71 years which returns to perihelion next April. On its
Read moreComet 12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type comet with a period of 71 years which returns to perihelion next April. On its
Read moreThe following article appeared in the 2023 August Journal, based on a talk at the June meeting (1). Updates leading
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Read more103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m
Read moreThe Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60
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