[AZ-Observing] Re: Congrats to Brian Skiff!

Then let us hope that fate brightens our celestial visitor and allow the
world to wildly proclaim the awesome comet Skiff!

(Let us also silently hope it doesn't smack the planet, send us back to the
ice age, have the world looking for Brian with torches and pitch forks, all
while he lives out his life hiding in a cave somewhere);-)

Congratulations Brian!!

Jimmy Ray

Steve, Do I sense a comet challenge here?

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     Thanks for the notes.  The Minor Planet Center originally
posted this with a finding ephemeris derived from a near-circular
Centaur-type orbit between Saturn and Uranus, which would have been
quite interesting.  But the one that's published is a fairly mundane
parabolic orbit with perihelion distance somewhere in the main
asteroid belt (2.7 AU).  It is still beyond 6 AU by the current
reckoning, and with only a 1.7-day arc on the orbit, things could
change considerably as further observations are obtained.
     The data thus far are reported here:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K07/K07B39.html

...which includes essential follow-up work by amateurs James McGaha
in Tucson and Peter Birtwhistle in England, among others.


\Brian
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