Discovery of Main-belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1

Year-Month2012-03
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal
AuthorHsieh, Henry H.; Yang, Bin; Haghighipour, Nader; Kaluna, Heather M.; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Novakovic, Bojan; Jedicke, Robert; Wainscoat, Richard J.; Armstrong, James D.; Duddy, Samuel R.; Lowry, Stephen C.; Trujillo, Chadwick A.; Micheli, Marco; Keane, Jacqueline V.; Urban, Laurie; Riesen, Timm; Meech, Karen J.; Abe, Shinsuke; Cheng, Yu-Chi; Chen, Wen-Ping; Granvik, Mikael; Grav, Tommy; Ip, Wing-Huen; Kinoshita, Daisuke; Kleyna, Jan; Lacerda, Pedro; Lister, Tim; Milani, Andrea; Tholen, David J.; Veres, Peter; Lisse, Carey M.; Kelley, Michael S.; Fernández, Yanga R.; Bhatt, Bhuwan C.; Sahu, Devendra K.; Kaiser, Nick; Chambers, K. C.; Hodapp, Klaus W.; Magnier, Eugene A.; Price, Paul A.; Tonry, John L.
Bibcode2012ApJ...748L..15H
TelescopeGN/GS
InstrumentGMOS-N/GMOS-S
ParticipantUH/US
First author participant affiliationUofH
Any author participant affiliationsUSA/UK/University of Hawaiʻi
Program IDGN-2011B-Q-16, GS-2011B-Q-51

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