Comet P/2017 O2 = P/2010 D1 (Wise)
Abstract
After the object was posted on the Minor Planet Center's PCCP webpage, J.-F. Soulier reported that unfiltered CCD exposures taken by A. Maury, J.-B. Vanssay, and himself on Aug. 2.35-2.38 UT with a 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien reflector at San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, show a 9" coma and a possible tail 11" long in p.a. 260 deg; the red magnitude was measured to be 19.8-19.9 in an aperture of radius 6".3.
- Publication:
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Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams
- Pub Date:
- August 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017CBET.4416....2S