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A WISE mûhold felfedezte elsõ üstökösét. Az IRAS 1983-as repülése óta csak
a Napot figyelõ mûholdak találtak üstökösöket, de "normális" szonda most
elõször. A keringési ideje csak 5 év. Sajnos elég halvány.

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                                                   Circular No. 9115
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  D. W. E. Green, Room 209; Department of
  Earth and Planetary Sciences; Harvard University;
  20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA  02138; U.S.A.
CBATIAU@EPS.HARVARD.EDU
URL http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html  ISSN 0081-0304


COMET P/2010 B2 (WISE)
      A. Mainzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reports that an object
discovered by the new earth-orbiting satellite WISE appears
extended with a hazy coma of diameter about 10"-20" and a tail
about 15" long toward the west-northwest in all the WISE infrared
images (discovery observation tabulated below).  Following posting
on the Minor Planet Center´s ´NEOCP´ webpage, D. J. Tholen
(Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) writes that three
stacked 20-s Megacam r-band images taken at Mauna Kea with the
3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (average seeing about 1".45)
by A. Draginda in morning twilight on Feb. 7.66 UT show that the
object is clearly non-stellar in all three images, but with no
obvious tail.  J. V. Scotti (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,
University of Arizona) reports that images taken on Feb. 8.47 with
the Spacewatch 1.8-m f/2.7 reflector at Kitt Peak show the object
to be diffuse with a coma diameter of 8" (magnitude V = 20.2), with
a possible westward tail involved with a field star.

      2010 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Observer
      Jan. 22.63762   14 01 10.72   -11 10 02.3   WISE

The available astrometry, the following elliptical orbital elements,
residuals, and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2010-C23.

                     Epoch = 2010 Jan.  4.0 TT
      T = 2009 Dec. 20.8910 TT         Peri. = 155.4007
      e = 0.463138                     Node  =   0.6617  2000.0
      q = 1.606972 AU                  Incl. =   8.8897
        a =  2.993271 AU    n = 0.1903203    P =   5.18 years