A story about a discovery of comet P/2000 U6 (Tichý)
comet P/2000 U6 (Tichý) was discovered by M.Tichý in the course of image processing of
images taken by J. Tichá and M. Kocer with using 0.57-m reflector+CCD at the Klet Observatory
for follow-up astrometry of a previous Klet discovery 1999 OX on 2000 Oct. 23.08 UT
a new object was found near the upper edge of images, therefore a diffuse appearance
was not evident enough, but our preliminary orbit computation showed an
unusual high-eccentricity orbit
we confirmed this new object on 2000 Oct. 23.96 UT
the third night on 2000 Oct. 28.94 UT confirmed the cometary appearance of this
object as well as a cometary orbit (short periodic comet)
we asked Brian G. Marsden, director of the Minor Planet Center, for a consultation,
he confirmed a short periodic orbit and shortly after this object was put on the NEOCP with
a designation N4025
thanks to follow-up observations made by P.J.Shelus (code 711),
D. A. Klinglesmith III. (code 719), LINEAR (code 704), Y. Ikari (code 900),
W. K. Yeung (code 919), F. B. Zoltowski (code 858), S. Sanchez and M. Blasco (code 620)
and D. T. Durig (code 850)
this new comet discovery was confirmed and Brian G. Marsden published his orbit and
a comet designation P/2000 U6 (Tichý) in
MPEC 2000-V03 as well as in
IAUC 7515 on
2000 Nov. 1
comet P/2000 U6 (Tichý) is a Jupiter family comet, it is in a 7.32-year elliptical
orbit around the sun ranging in distance from 322 million km (at perihelion, closest point
to the sun) to 806 million km (at aphelion, furthest point from the sun). The orbit is
inclined at about 19 degrees to the ecliptic plane (the plane of the earth's orbit
about the sun). There is little information on the physical properties of it up to now.
You will need a telescope to see this comet.
comet P/2000 U6 (Tichý) is the first comet discovered in the Czech Republic using a CCD camera
comet P/2000 U6 (Tichý) is the 606th object which was credited by MPC as M. Tichư's
discovery or co-discovery and which received a provisional designation
the 2000 Oct.23 night was very successful because we found a new comet, and moreover we
made two NEO recoveries,
Amor-type asteroid 1998 UN1 and
PHA Apollo-type asteroid 2000 GJ147