Re: 1957 Comet

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

> The best comet I ever saw was while visiting my relatives in Boise Idaho, 
> Easter week of 1957.   Does anyone else 
> remember seeing this comet, and if so, did it have a name?
    Margaret 
> Clarke in Duluth.  mclarke@fac1.css.edu  

These are all the 1957 comets I could track down. I haven't been able 
to find magnitude estimates or exact dates yet but if I do, I'll let 
you know (not really surprising since there are a gazillion of these 
things). I seem to recall that Mrkos was a pretty bright one so 
perhaps that was it.


 26P            1957 I = 1956i          Grigg-Skjellerup              
  
  10P            1957 II = 1956e         Tempel 2                     
    
    C/1956 R1    1957 III = 1956h        Arend-Roland                 
      
  29P            1957 IV                 Schwassmann-Wachmann 1       
    
    C/1957 P1    1957 V = 1957d          Mrkos                        
      C/1956 F1    1957 VI = 1956c         Wirtanen                   
        
  49P/1958 B1    1957 VII = 1958b        Arend-Rigaux                 
    
   2P            1957 VIII = 1957c       Encke                        
     
    C/1957 U1    1957 IX = 1957f         Latyshev-Wild-Burnham        
      


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