Discovery date December 17, 1989 Aphelion ~3140 AU Eccentricity 1.000308 Last perihelion 11 April 1990 | Alternative
designations 1990 VI, 1989e1 Semi-major axis ~1571 AU Discovered 17 December 1989 | |
Discovered by Boris Skoritchenko & Doug George People also search for C/2000 U5, C/2000 W1, C/1999 F1 | ||
Comet Skorichenko–George (sometimes spelled Scorichenko–George) is also designated C/1989 Y1, 1990 VI, and 1989e1. It was discovered on December 17, 1989 by Doug George of Kanata (near Ottawa), Ontario, Canada, and Soviet astronomer Boris Skoritchenko (Mezmay, Krasnodar Krai). Skoritchenko was using 8×20 binoculars, whilst George was using a 16" reflector and had searched for 65 hours. The comet was magnitude 10.5 in the northern evening sky. It passed its perihelion on April 11, 1990 at a distant 1.57 AU, and remained in the Earth's evening sky through April 1990, at magnitude 9–10.
C2 emission bands were observed in the comet Skorichenko-George.
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