[BAA Comets] Comet 15P/Finlay

[Jeremy Shears]

Many thanks for the timely reminder to observe Comet 15P/Finlay, Richard. Certainly sounds an interesting comet.
All the best,Jeremy
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> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:26:48 -0000
> From: "Richard Miles" <rmiles at baa.u-net.com>
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> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Two interesting papers
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> Thanks Jeremy for the heads-up on these.
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> Comet 15P/Finlay I have included as 1 of 17 comets that I have classed as 
> exhibiting 'non-fragmenting' strong outbursts.
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> Although it has supposed to have been quiet for past 128 years or so, it may 
> very well have had outbursts but these have been missed as the observing 
> window for each is quite short near perihelion - probably about 3-4 days. 
> The fact it has produced 2 strong outbursts separated by about 31 days is 
> indicative of it being generally prone to outburst and so should be 
> monitored regularly in future.
> 
> 15P is just coming accessible again in the morning sky (elongation 59 
> degrees and rising) so it's a good time at the start of its apparition for 
> observers to add it to their list of targets.
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> Cheers,
> Richard
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeremy Shears" <bunburyobservatory at hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 7:57 AM
> Subject: [BAA Comets] Two interesting papers
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> > On arXiv today and well worth a read:
> > Bangs and Meteors from the Quiet Comet 15P/Finlay, 
> > http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06645
> > Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-Period Comets and Probable 
> > Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921, 
> > http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06445
> > The detective work on the mysterious object in 1921 is fascinating
> > Jeremy
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