596 Scheila [SEP] discoverer or inventor
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
Scheila last came to perihelion on 2012 May 19.
See also.
- 493 Griseldis (another possible asteroid collision, 2015)
External links.
- Comet-like appearance of (596) Scheila (Remanzacco Observatory)
- What's up with Scheila (596) (AARTScope Blog)
- Joseph Brimacombe animation on flckr
- (596) Scheila 2010-12-12 10:45:39UT (cbellh47 @ flckr)
- (596) Scheila by Rolando Ligustri (CAST-Italia)
- Comet