Comet Spacewatch

Spacewatch may refer to any of the comets discovered by the Spacewatch survey of the Kitt Peak Observatory below:

Periodic comets

125P/Spacewatch
283P/Spacewatch
293P/Spacewatch
361P/Spacewatch
366P/Spacewatch
379P/Spacewatch
P/2010 UH₅₅ (Spacewatch)
P/2013 YG₄₆ (Spacewatch)

Non-periodic comets

C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch)
C/1997 BA₆ (Spacewatch)
C/1997 P2 (Spacewatch)
C/2000 OF₈ (Spacewatch)
C/2003 K1 (Spacewatch)
C/2004 HV₆₀ (Spacewatch)
C/2006 GZ₂ (Spacewatch)
C/2006 M2 (Spacewatch)
C/2006 U6 (Spacewatch)
C/2007 D2 (Spacewatch)
C/2007 VO₅₃ (Spacewatch)
C/2011 KP₃₆ (Spacewatch)
C/2013 TW₅ (Spacewatch)

Others

Comet Spacewatch may also refer to a partial reference to comets co-discovered with the Spacewatch Telescope:

Comet LINEAR–Spacewatch
- 381P/LINEAR–Spacewatch
Comet Spacewatch–Hill
- 393P/Spacewatch–Hill
Comet Spacewatch–LINEAR
- 475P/Spacewatch–LINEAR
Comet Spacewatch–PanSTARRS
- 491P/Spacewatch–PanSTARRS
- 497P/Spacewatch–PanSTARRS

Additionally, two near-Earth asteroids discovered by Spacewatch were discovered to have cometary activity in 2016 and 2025, respectively:

(300163) 2006 VW139 – also known by its numerical designation 288P
(875163) 1998 SH2

References

↑ "Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
↑ "LINEAR-Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
↑ "Spacewatch-Hill – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
↑ "Spacewatch-LINEAR – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
↑ "Spacewatch-PANSTARRS – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
↑ J. Agarwal; D. C. Hewitt; M. Mutchler; H. Weaver; S. Larson (2017). "A binary main-belt comet". Nature. 549 (7672): 357–359. arXiv:1710.03454. Bibcode:2017Natur.549..357A. doi:10.1038/nature23892. PMID 28933430. S2CID 4469577.
↑ D. Farnocchia; O. R. Hainaut; D. Z. Seligment (2026). "Non-gravitational acceleration indicative of cometary activity of near-Earth object" (PDF). Nature Astronomy. doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02913-7.

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[jpl1-1] "Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl2-2] "LINEAR-Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl3-3] "Spacewatch-Hill – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl4-4] "Spacewatch-LINEAR – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl5-5] "Spacewatch-PANSTARRS – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[Agarwal_2017-6] J. Agarwal; D. C. Hewitt; M. Mutchler; H. Weaver; S. Larson (2017). "A binary main-belt comet". Nature. 549 (7672): 357–359. arXiv:1710.03454. Bibcode:2017Natur.549..357A. doi:10.1038/nature23892. PMID 28933430. S2CID 4469577.

[Farnocchia_2026-7] D. Farnocchia; O. R. Hainaut; D. Z. Seligment (2026). "Non-gravitational acceleration indicative of cometary activity of near-Earth object" (PDF). Nature Astronomy. doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02913-7.