Monthly Archives: August 2011

New comet C/2011 Q1 (PANSTARRS)

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Luca Buzzi

C/2011 Q1 (PANSTARRS) was discovered on 2011, Aug. 20.44 by PANSTARRS team with a 1.8-m f/4 reflector + CCD from Haleakala, Hawaii, USA. Richard Wainscoat, Marco Micheli, Henry Hsieh and Larry Denneau described it as having a FWHM of 1.2″ … Continue reading →

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C/2009 S3 & C/2008 FK75 close approach

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Luca Buzzi

On the night between Aug. 2 and 3 I was able to catch the close approach of two comets, C/2009 S3 (Lemmon) and C/2008 FK75 (Lemmon-Siding Spring), thanks to a previous “alert” made by Seiichi Yoshida from comets-ml. The field … Continue reading →

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First Earth Trojan asteroid discovered: 2010 TK7

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Luca Buzzi

Usually I update this blog with some interesting stuff done at Schiaparelli Observatory, but this time I will make an exception. On July 27 a team led by Martin Connors of Athabasca University in Canada announced the discovery of the … Continue reading →

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