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Comets C 2018 N2 (ASASSN) and 260 P (McNaught) on 8.09.2019 |
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Size: 1800 px | |||||||||||||||||||||||
© Velimir Popov & Emil Ivanov 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Comet C 2018 N2 was discovered on July 7th 2018 by All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) program. Comet 260 P is a periodic comet with a period 6.89 years. It was discovered onAugust 11th 2005 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope and was observed at its returns in 2012 and 2019. This image shows both comets on the night of September 8th 2019 at about 01:30 UT, when the visible distance of both nuclei was about 18'. |
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Charts and image details obtained from Astrometry.net | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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