Comets Currently Visible: C/1998 K5 (LINEAR)
IAU Circular 6923 (May 30, 1998) reports the discovery of comet by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project. A parabolic orbit on the same circular indicats that perihelion was on July 17, 1998 at a distance of 0.96 AU. The comet is currently 13th magnitude and is expected (and was) to fade rapidly - it hasn't so far.
The comet is unusual in that it has a very small coma diameter and is nearly stellar in appearance. The comet is visible as a morning object with Northern Hemisphere observers favored.
Detailed links and articles
- Deep Sky Photography
- Comet Hale-Bopp
- Comet Hyakutake
- Carribean Solar Eclipse
- Turkey - Solar Eclipse
- Leonid Meteor Shower
- Expedition to Mt. Wilson
- Solar Eclipse in Western Zambia
- How to find a Black Hole
- Mars Odyssey Instrument Fails
- Astronauts Hear a Crunching Sound
- Images of Wetlands from Space
- The Next Supernova?
- Magnitude Estimation Methods
- Comet Observations
- Airborne Large Aperture Telescope
- Abstract for ALAT & Related Concepts
- Multiple Function Lighter Than Air Platform
- Why an Airship?
- Airborne Large Aperture Telescope
- Airborne Large Telescope & LTA Platform
- Asteroid Threat Ruled Out
- Comets Currently Visible: C/1998 K5
- Comet Definitions
- Comets Currently Visible: C/1998 T1
- XMM-Newton Finds the Most Distant Quasar
- Comets Currently Visible: P/1998 QP54
- Comet News: C/1998 U3 (Jager)
- Opportunity Finds its Heat Shield
- Crew Begins Unloading Progress
- Comet News: P/1998 S1 (LINEAR-Mueller)
- Huygens is On Its Way
- Asteroid Threat Upgraded to 1 in 45
- Comet News: C/1998 T1 (LINEAR)
- Jovian Moon Was Probably Captured
- Illustration of the ALAT Platform
- Comet News: P/1998 QP54(LONEOS-Tucker)
- Actual Multiple Function ALAT Platform
- Endeavour on its Way to the Station
