Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002em%26p...90..507t&link_type=abstract
Earth, Moon, and Planets, v. 90, Issue 1, p. 507-513 (2002).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Astrometry, Comet
Scientific paper
The majority of new ground-based discoveries of comets comes from large surveys devoted, predominantly, to Near Earth Asteroids. The first step in distinguishing these newly discovered members of the population of cometary bodies consists in confirmatory astrometric observations along with detection of their cometary features. Although both amateur and professional stations take part in such confirmatory observations, only some of them do a preliminary analysis of the cometary activity of a particular newly discovered body. A timely recognition of cometary features of a particular body having an unusual orbit can help in planning further observing campaigns. A main goals of the Klet Observatory NEO astrometric follow-up programme consists of an analysis of possible cometary activity of newly discovered unusual bodies. Here, we describe several examples (comets C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) and so on). We also mention an extension of our programme to fainter objects after the completion of a new 1-m telescope at the Klet Observatory.
Kocer Michal
Ticha Jana
Tichý Miloš
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