Re: (meteorobs) Asteroids, comets and shedding.

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Asteroids, comets and shedding.
• From: Tony Beresford <aberesford@iprimus.com.au>
• Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:21:43 +1030
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At 11:40 22/12/01, you wrote:
>JBortle@aol.com wrote:
>>  Just the same, there are a number of other
>> small asteroidal bodies known that are traveling in comet-like orbits and at
>> least some are probably currently inert cometary nuclei.
>
>=========
>Robert MacNaught has discovered such an object some 10 years ago. The
>object has a comet-like orbit of aproximately 80 years, but don't come
>very close to Earth orbit, if I'm remembered. He knows much more about
>it, of course.
>
>Has the object already been named?
>Comet MacNaught?
No it is called Damocles(5335)  Kiko, and the period is nearer 40 years rather than 80.
 There are of course quite a few comets with named McNaught, mostly joint discoveries.
Tony Beresford


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