* Astronomy

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RE: Comet

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Seven new comets have been discovered on file images taken by the SOHO satellite SOHO.
Six comets belong to the Kreutz group, while the comet C/2007 K10 belongs to no known group.

C/2007 K19 (SOHO) Rainer Kracht
C/2007 K20 (SOHO) Tony Hoffman

(MPEC 2007-T93)

C/2007 L1 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 L2 (SOHO) Karl Battams
C/2007 L3 (SOHO) Shihong Yuan
C/2007 L4 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 L5 (SOHO) Alan Watson

(MPEC 2007-T94)

Blobrana · L

Nine new comets have been discovered on file images taken by the SOHO satellite SOHO.
Eight comets belong to the Kreutz group, while the comet C/2007 K12 belongs to the Meyer group.

C/2007 K10 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 K11 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 K12 (SOHO) Hua Su
C/2007 K13 (SOHO) Tony Hoffman

(MPEC 2007-T77)

C/2007 K14 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 K15 (SOHO) Hua Su
C/2007 K16 (SOHO) Rainer Kracht
C/2007 K17 (SOHO) Tony Hoffman
C/2007 K18 (SOHO) Maik Meyer

(MPEC 2007-T78)

Blobrana · L

Eight new comets have been discovered in filed images taken by SOHO satellite.
All the comets belong to the Kreutz group.

C/2007 J8 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 J9 (SOHO) Shihong Yuan
C/2007 J10 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 J11 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 J12 (SOHO) Bo Zhou

(MPEC 2007-T56)

C/2007 K7 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 K8 (SOHO) Bo Zhou
C/2007 K9 (SOHO) Bo Zhou

(MPEC 2007-T57)

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# (2007 July 12)
* COMET C/2007 N1 (McNAUGHT), Discovery via the Siding Spring survey.

* COMET C/2006 VZ_13 (LINEAR)

# (2007 July 11)
* COMET 188P/LINEAR-MUELLER, Recovery of P/1998 S1 at Siding Spring and Kitt Peak.

# (2007 June 26)
* COMET P/2007 J7 (LINEAR-MUELLER)

Blobrana · L

Comet C/2007 M3 (LINEAR) was discovered on June 21st, 2007, by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project.

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   m1    m2
2007 07 04    19 16.78   +01 16.9    2.573    3.520   154.9     7.0  17.0
2007 07 09    19 03.71   +00 46.2    2.556    3.513   156.7     6.6  17.0
2007 07 14    18 50.55   +00 11.4    2.554    3.507   155.9     6.8  17.0

IAUC 8852


(2007 June 26)

IAUC 8853

Date: Jul 7 00:43 2007

I heard that a new comet was discovered today.
Is this true, does anyone know?