New Comet Discovered in Canada
For the first time in 10 years a comet has been discovered at the University of Calgary’s Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, its about 10 miles off southwest Calgary.
Its also the second comet discovered by a Canadian using a Canadian telescope in nearly a decade.
On oct 1st Rob Cardinal was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a (you gotta believe it) a comet. He saw something move in a patch of sky near the NCP while he was the Baker-Nunn telescope. A few computer images taken showed a moving object
A few more pics taken a week later verified that this was indeed a member of our solar system we never saw. Like the protocol it was named Cardinal. But it was officially designated as C/2008 T2 Cardinal.
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