Comet Vozarova, formally designated C/1954 O1, is a hyperbolic comet discovered by Slovak astronomer, Margita Vozárová, on July 28, 1954.

Discovery and observation

The comet was already on its outbound flight as a magnitude 9.0 object upon discovery,[5] where some observers noticed it also may have potentially fragmented.[4]

By August, the comet was found to have a 20-arcminute long tail pointed towards the Sun.[6] It was last observed from the Lick Observatory as a magnitude 18.5 object on December 18, 1954.[7][4]

References

  1. ^ "SLOVENSKÉ A ČESKÉ KOMÉTY - 2. strana". planetarium.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Comet Names and Designations". International Comet Quarterly. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  3. ^ "C/1954 O1 (Vozarova) – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  4. ^ a b c I. Hasegawa (1966). "Orbit of Comet Vozarova, 1954 VIII". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 18 (3): 281–286. Bibcode:1966PASJ...18..281H.
  5. ^ a b "Comet C/1954 O1 (Vozarova)". Comet Observation Database System (COBS). Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  6. ^ "History of the BAA Comet Section". British Astronomical Association. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  7. ^ H. M. Jeffers; E. Roemer (1955). "Observations of Comets and Asteroids". Astronomical Journal. 60 (1234): 440–442. Bibcode:1955AJ.....60..440J. doi:10.1086/107254.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1954_O1
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