596 Scheila [SEP] time of discovery
596 Scheila
Scheila (minor planet designation: 596 Scheila) is a main-belt asteroid and main-belt comet
orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 21 February 1906 by August Kopff from Heidelberg. Kopff named the asteroid after a female English student with whom he was acquainted.
Overview.
On December 11.4 2010, Steve Larson of the Catalina Sky Survey detected a comet-like appearance to asteroid Scheila: it displayed a "coma" of about magnitude 13.5. Inspection of archival Catalina Sky Survey observations
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- Project T3: Finding Comets in the Asteroid Population
- The Active Asteroids (Dave Jewitt : 22 Dec 2011: arXiv:1112.5220)
- Discovery of Main-Belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1 (Henry H. Hsieh : 9 Feb 2012: arXiv:1202.2126)
- New Comet: P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) (Remanzacco Observatory : 16 Oct 2012)
- The location of Asteroidal Belt Comets (ABCs), in a comets' evolutionary diagram: The Lazarus Comets (arXiv:1305.2621 : 14 May 2013