Comet News: C/1998 U3 (Jager)
IAU Circular 7038 (Oct. 25, 1998) reports the discovery of a comet by Michael Jager (east of Vienna) on 16- and 9-min Technical Pan film exposures. The comet is about 12th magnitude.
A preliminary parabolic orbit reported on IAU Circular 7040 (October 27, 1998) indicates that perihelion will occur on Dec. 9, 1998 at a distance of 2.7 AU. The circular points out that this comet is probably of short-period. Based on the published orbit, the comet will remain a well-placed Northern Hemisphere object and should brighten about 0.5 magnitude by December. The comet will then slowly fade as it moves south.
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
