[Iaude] CBET 4829: COMET P/2020 P2
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Sat Aug 15 20:47:06 EDT 2020
Electronic Telegram No. 4829
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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COMET P/2020 P2 = P/2009 Q4 (BOATTINI)
N. Erasmus, South African Astronomical Observatory, reported his
discovery of a comet on CCD images taken with a 0.5-m f/2 Schmidt reflector
at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in the in the course of the "Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact
Last Alert System" (ATLAS) search program (discovery observations tabulated
below), the object noted as having a diffuse coma (FWHM size being 6" in 4"
seeing) extended about 15" toward p.a. 260 degrees.
2020 UT R.A. (2000) Decl. Mag.
Aug. 11.58229 2 20 02.99 + 0 40 38.6 19.1
11.59290 2 20 04.05 + 0 40 39.4 18.4
11.59844 2 20 04.62 + 0 40 39.4 19.0
11.60351 2 20 05.09 + 0 40 38.7 18.9
The object was immediately posted on the Minor Planet Center's page. H. Sato,
Tokyo, Japan, noted that this appears to be a recovery of P/2009 Q4 (cf. IAUCs
9069, 9081) when he sent his follow-up observations composed of twenty stacked
60-s exposures taken remotely on Aug. 12.43 UT with a 0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph
located near Mayhill, NM, USA. Sato found that the comet was strongly
condensed with a coma 10" in diameter, and there was a 15" tail toward p.a.
270 degrees; the magnitude was 19.3 as measured within a circular aperture of
radius 5".7. The following day, A. Fitzsimmons, Queen's University, Belfast,
also reported that the ATLAS team found that this comet is located about 10'
from the predicted position of P/2009 Q4 with a similar motion. E. Guido,
Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, writes that ninety-five stacked unfiltered
60-s CCD exposures taken remotely by A. Catapano and himself on Aug. 13.0-13.1
UT with a 0.5 m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien reflector at the Osservatorio Salvatore
di Giacomo, Agerola, show a compact coma about 8" in diameter and a tail 20"
long in p.a. 245 degrees.
The MPC has already posted the new astrometry. The following linked
orbital elements by S. Nakano, Central Bureau, are from 768 observations
spanning 2009-2020 (mean residual 0".60), the comet having been missed at its
2015 return. The residuals of the recovery observations in 2020 were +0.12
deg in R.A. and +0.04 deg in Decl., compared to the orbit prediction in the
ICQ's 2019 and 2020 Comet Handbooks (and NK 3440), with the indicated
correction being Delta(T) = -0.22 day. The comet passed 0.55 AU from Jupiter
on 1984 June 23 UT.
Epoch = 2009 Nov. 25.0 TT
T = 2009 Nov. 19.92133 TT Peri. = 320.01098
e = 0.5791747 Node = 127.67287 2000.0
q = 1.3208688 AU Incl. = 10.96921
a = 3.1387580 AU n = 0.17724228 P = 5.56 years
Epoch = 2015 June 27.0 TT
T = 2015 June 13.27195 TT Peri. = 320.13194
e = 0.5800050 Node = 127.59773 2000.0
q = 1.3169827 AU Incl. = 10.98072
a = 3.1357107 AU n = 0.17750071 P = 5.55 years
Epoch = 2020 Dec. 17.0 TT
T = 2020 Dec. 26.74681 TT Peri. = 320.23588
e = 0.5825923 Node = 127.46365 2000.0
q = 1.3056815 AU Incl. = 11.01535
a = 3.1280725 AU n = 0.17815124 P = 5.53 years
Epoch = 2026 July 19.0 TT
T = 2026 July 7.95357 TT Peri. = 320.30555
e = 0.5837837 Node = 127.40757 2000.0
q = 1.3000663 AU Incl. = 11.02844
a = 3.1235353 AU n = 0.17853956 P = 5.52 years
Epoch = 2032 Jan. 9.0 TT
T = 2032 Jan. 11.82981 TT Peri. = 320.21446
e = 0.5840355 Node = 127.40365 2000.0
q = 1.2992853 AU Incl. = 11.03008
a = 3.1235487 AU n = 0.17853841 P = 5.52 years
Epoch = 2037 July 1.0 TT
T = 2037 July 17.15764 TT Peri. = 320.23432
e = 0.5852576 Node = 127.36964 2000.0
q = 1.2934755 AU Incl. = 11.04240
a = 3.1187444 AU n = 0.17895111 P = 5.51 years
The following ephemeris by the undersigned from the above orbital elements
uses photometric power-law parameters H = 15.0 and 2.5n = 10 for the
magnitudes.
Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag.
2020 07 10 01 26.37 -00 13.0 1.967 2.184 88.1 27.7 19.9
2020 07 20 01 42.76 +00 18.7 1.793 2.114 93.5 28.7 19.5
2020 07 30 01 59.24 +00 37.8 1.624 2.044 98.9 29.4 19.2
2020 08 09 02 15.78 +00 42.2 1.463 1.975 104.3 29.8 18.8
2020 08 19 02 32.26 +00 29.5 1.309 1.906 109.7 30.0 18.4
2020 08 29 02 48.54 -00 03.0 1.164 1.837 115.1 29.8 18.0
2020 09 08 03 04.44 -00 57.2 1.031 1.770 120.5 29.4 17.5
2020 09 18 03 19.70 -02 14.7 0.909 1.704 125.8 28.6 17.1
2020 09 28 03 33.97 -03 54.9 0.799 1.640 130.8 27.5 16.7
2020 10 08 03 46.94 -05 54.5 0.703 1.579 135.5 26.3 16.2
2020 10 18 03 58.16 -08 06.3 0.620 1.522 139.5 25.2 15.8
2020 10 28 04 07.30 -10 16.3 0.550 1.469 142.6 24.2 15.4
2020 11 07 04 14.29 -12 05.0 0.493 1.422 144.7 23.7 15.0
2020 11 17 04 19.27 -13 07.9 0.448 1.382 145.7 23.8 14.7
2020 11 27 04 23.02 -12 58.6 0.414 1.349 145.8 24.3 14.4
2020 12 07 04 26.82 -11 16.9 0.390 1.325 145.4 25.0 14.2
2020 12 17 04 32.10 -07 54.5 0.378 1.310 144.7 25.7 14.1
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2020 August 15 (CBET 4829) Daniel W. E. Green
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