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 comet 333P/LINEAR ( P/2007 VA85)

Discovery:

This comet was discovered by the   Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research project (LINEAR) on 4 nov.2007 and assigned as P/2007 VA85 , this object has a 18.9 magn.

IAUC 8894:  An apparently asteroidal object of mag 18.5-19 discovered by the LINEAR survey on Nov. 4.1 UT has the shortest known period (P =7.6 yr) for a sun-orbiting natural object with a retrograde orbit (i = 132.6 deg).  Attempts to find cometary activity have been unsuccessful.  The available astrometry and orbital elements appear on MPEC 2007-V73

Recovery: [ CBET 4236 ]

In 2015 was this apparently asteroidal object recovered bij iTelescope.net in Siding spring.

Cometary activity was detected at the 2016 return, though the comet has not yet been given a designation for this return.  Jose Gonzalez observed it in early 2016 March at 11th magnitude, considerably brighter than expected.