October 2023 Confirmations
These are confirmations for October 2023, plus a couple of other reports that I had missed.
Soho# Date/Time of Post Discoverer Tel Group Images of... ===================================================================== xc100 Sep02,22 08:13:51 Z.Yang C2 Kreutz Apr29,97 4886* Sep30,23 10:54pm W.Boonplod C3 Kreutz Oct01,23 4887* Oct02,23 06:42pm R.Pickard C3,C2 Kreutz Oct03-04,23 4888 Oct05,23 10:53:21 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct05-06,23 xc101 Oct06,23 10:51:27 Z.Yang C2 Kreutz Oct06,23 4889 Oct07,23 04:09:27 S.Liwo C3,C2 NonGrp Oct07,23 4890 Oct07,23 19:54:29 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct07-08,23 4891 Oct08,23 17:53:14 R.Pickard C3,C2,C2A Kreutz Oct08-10,23 4892 Oct09,23 10:54:42 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct09,23 4893 Oct10,23 08:48:57 T.Prestgard C2 Kreutz Oct10,23 4894 Oct10,23 20:16:26 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct10-11,23 4895 Oct12,23 05:20:15 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct12-13,23 4896 Oct13,23 18:27:31 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct13-14,23 4897 Oct15,23 00:08:41 J.Ruan C2 Kreutz Oct15,23 4898 Oct15,23 04:00:06 J.Ruan C2 Kreutz Oct15,23 4899 Oct16,23 10:16:31 Z.Yang C2 Kreutz Oct16,23 4900 Oct16,23 16:29:41 R.Pickard C3,C2 Kreutz Oct16-17,23 4901 Oct21,23 21:27:04 J.Ruan C2 NonGrp Oct21,23 4902 Oct22,23 05:31:25 Z.Yang C2 Kreutz Oct22,23 4903 Oct23,23 15:45:00 W.Boonplod C2 NonGrp Oct23,23 4904 Oct23,23 16:01:45 R.Pickard C2 NonGrp Oct23,23 4905 Oct23,23 16:06:13 H.Tan C2 Kreutz Oct23,23 4906 Oct24,23 10:07:09 Z.Yang C2 Kreutz Oct24,23 4907 Oct25,23 02:30:56 J.Ruan C2 Kreutz Oct25,23 4908 Oct26,23 22:24:24 Z.Xu C2 Kreutz Oct27,23 4909 Oct28,23 16:06:27 H.Tan C2 Kreutz Oct28.23 4910 Oct29,23 03:24:50 J.Ruan C3,C2 Kreutz Oct29,23 4911 Oct29,23 11:08:21 H.Tan C2 Kreutz Oct29,23 4912 Oct30,23 11:33:11 H.Tan C2 Kreutz Oct30,23 --
Congrats to Robert for finding SOHO-4900! The next milestone is a very big one...
Note the following reports were made to the groups.io page:
SOHO-4886: Message #5760
SOHO-4887: Message #5762
Comet xc100 was a very obvious Kreutz comet, but only visible in four images, so cannot be officially confirmed. Likewise, xc101 was certainly a real Kreutz but I could only find it in three C2 images, and not at all in C3. I also cannot confirm Trygve's second fragment (report_tp_20231010090846) of 4891, or Zesheng's fragment report (report_zy_20231024104501).
As always, please email me if you think I have missed something.
This time of year gets busy, as we try and finish projects, attend end-of-year meetings, and have a few holidays in between. I will TRY to get the November confirmations done next week, and December confirmations will probably happen in early January.
One final thing: please note that the recent Marsden group comet reported on the groups page and the report page is almost certainly the (early) return of P/2002 R4 (SOHO).
As always, please email me with any questions, comments, corrections, etc.
Karl