Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann appears to have undergone another massive outburst, this time on 2010 February 2 increasing in brightness by a factor of 30-40. The object is one of the largest active comets known. It follows a near-circular path about 6.2 AU from the Sun, i.e. well beyond the orbit of Jupiter. This is its fourth outburst of a similar magnitude in the past 8 years. Read more
Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is again in outburst The brightening of the periodic comet was discovered by J. M. Trigo-Rodriguez, Institute of Space Sciences.
Outburst of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann. The comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has brightened up again reaching magnitude 11.0 V. on September 21, 2008. The brightening was observed by Juan Antonio.