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125P/SPACEWATCH - (1991 R2 = P/1996 F1)

125P on Gary W. Kronk’s cometography

Discovery:  ( IAUC 5341 )

125P/Spacewatch is a periodic Jupiter-family comet. It was discovered on September 8, 1991, by Tom Gehrels using the 0.91 m Spacewatch telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. It was the first comet discovered with the use of a CCD and also the faintest comet upon discovery up to that point. It has a diameter of 1.6 km

Recovery: (IAUC 6349: P/1996 F1)

J. V. Scotti, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, reports that he and J. Montani have recovered comet P/1991 R2 (= 1991x = 1990 XXIX) with the 0.9-m Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak.  The nuclear magnitude m2 was 19.6 and 19.4 on Mar. 21.35 and 22.26 UT, respectively; on Mar. 21.35 a 0'.66 tail extended in p.a. 264 deg from a 15" coma.

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