Cometary features of the RJ22C64 object was detected

Date Arrow  June 1, 2010 at 11:11am  

Cometary nature of the NEOCP object RJ22C64 was detected in a course of A79 observations. The latter reveals the presence of diffuse coma nearly 20 arcsec in diameter and tail about 40 arcsec in direction 160 p.a. The first and preliminary orbit for the comet C/2010 J1 (Boattini) indicates perihelion already on Jan. 31, 2010, at about 1.6 AU.(IAUC 9143 (subscription required), MPEC 2010-J32)


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