Serendipitous Archival Observations of a New Ultradistant Comet C/2019 E3 (ATLAS)

Serendipitous Archival Observations of a New Ultradistant Comet C/2019 E3 (ATLAS)

We identified a new ultradistant comet C/2019 E3 (ATLAS) exhibiting preperihelion cometary activity at heliocentric distances ≳20 au, making it the fourth member of this population after C/2010 U3 (Boattini), C/2014 UN _271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein), and C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). From serendipitous arc...

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Main Authors: Man-To Hui, Robert Weryk, Marco Micheli, Zhong Huang, Richard Wainscoat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astronomical Journal
Subjects:
Long period comets
Comets
Oort cloud objects
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2500

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2500

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