New Comet V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto Takes Observers by Surprise
You just never know when it comes to comets. Here it is, mid-November, and we’d thought we had finished up writing about bright comets for 2018. That was, until this past weekend, when a flurry of messages flashed across the Yahoo! Comets mailing list hinting that a new, possibly bright comet had been discovered. Come Monday morning November 12th, long period Comet C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto was formally added to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet list.
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