C/2011 J2 [SEP] time of discovery
C/2011 J2
C/2011 J2 (LINEAR) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 4 May 2011 by LINEAR at an apparent magnitude of 19.7 using a Reflecting telescope. As of September 2014 the comet is around apparent magnitude 17.
C/2011 J2 came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 25 December 2013 at a distance of 3.4 AU from the Sun. On 27 August 2014 an 18th magnitude fragment CK11J02b was detected. Preliminary estimates are that a fragmentation event occurred around 14 July 2014 plus/minus ten days
an ejection trajectory.
External links.
- C/2011 J2 ( LINEAR ) – Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog
- C/2011 J2 Linear: nucleus splitting (Virtual Telescope 19 September 2014)
- Comet C/2011 J2 in the process of fragmenting as seen on 2 September 2014
- Comet C/2011 J2 Linear splitting: a new image (24 Sept. 2014) (Virtual Telescope 25 September 2014)
- Follow-up of splitting event in Comet C/2011 J2 (Remanzacco 1 October 2014)