Monday, May 18, 2009

Update about comet 19P/Borrelly

Further follow up performed by the undersigneds with the same instrumental set-up of our previous report (but with 600-sec total integration time) on 2009, May 17.21, shows that the secondary condensation (or knot) that has been reported on comet 19P/Borrelly (see our previous post) has significantly weakened, with an aspect extremely diffuse and elongated compared to our previous observation of May 15.21.

On May 17.21 the optocenter (difficult determination) of this feature had a displacement of about 4 arcsec in PA 301 with respect to the central condensation of 19P/Borrelly.

Our image is available here:

http://tinyurl.com/qnvpvw


Giovanni Sostero, Paul Camilleri, Enrico Prosperi & Ernesto Guido

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