Introduction
Welcome to the website for our Observing Campaigns. Our intention is to provide a central clearinghouse for basic information regarding some recent high profile small bodies of interest. Our goal is to encourage and facilitate the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of observations, and to promote collaborations between researchers.
Depending on the information available for the various objects, we may have individual websites providing detailed information, status, etc., or we may simply provide a page that allows you to submit and view the proposed / completed observations for the object.
Full campaign sites are currently available for:
- Comet 46P/Wirtanen Home (Passes within 0.077 AU of Earth on Dec 16, 2018)
- Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (Passed within 0.142 AU of Earth on Apr 1, 2017)
- Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (Passed within 0.083 AU on Feb 11, 2017)
- Asteroid 2012 TC4 Home (Passed 50,151 km from Earth on Oct. 12, 2017)
- Asteroid 1999 KW4 Home (Test case for characterizing NEOs)
Individual pages containing observing information are currently available for:
- Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (Experiences frequent outburst activity)
- Comet PanSTARRS C/2016 R2 (Has an interesting CO+ plasma tail)
- Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Predicted ~8 mag in Sep 2018)
- Comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma (Predicted ~10 mag in Nov 2018)