COBS News archive

Comet P/2010 K2 (WISE)
June 04, 2010
Object reported by the WISE spacecraft without description and posted on the Minor Planet Centers NEOCP webpage, has been found to show cometary appearance...

Meeting on Asteroids and Comets in Europe
May 13, 2010
The conference MACE will take place in and around Višnjan/Tićan, Croatia, on the long weekend of May 21-23, 2010.

Observation of a dust spiral structure in periodic comet P/2010 H2 (Vales)
May 12, 2010
We observed the comet P/2010 H2 (Vales) in moonless conditions on May 1, 2010 using B, V and R photometric filters, as well as with the clear filter on the 0.6 m, f/3.3 Cichocki telescope at the Crni Vrh Observatory. The exposures, all of 8 minutes duration, were tracked on the comet and obtained between 19:46 and 20:31 UT. The pixel scale was 0.93 arcseconds.

Discovery of an extraordinary outburst of an unidentified moving object at Crni Vrh Observatory
April 18, 2010
On images taken by J. Vales in the course of the Crni Vrh Asteroid and Comet Search program PIKA, on April 16, 2010 an unusually bright unknown object (mag. 12.5) was automatically detected. The object was near opposition, in an area searched by Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) just a day before.