C/2007 W1 ( Boattini 彗星)

＊　Discovery　＊ This comet was discovered on November 20, 2007, by Andrea Boattini during the course of the Mt. Lemmon survey in Arizona. Andrea is originally from Italy, and while in his native country developed a strong interest in near-Earth asteroids; during his research efforts there he discovered (or co-discovered) up to 170 asteroids (mostly main-belt objects). He has recently begun working with the Catalina and Mt. Lemmon program and has made several additional asteroid discoveries while there; one of these was the object 2007 WD5, which made some headlines when it made an extremely close approach to Mars at the end of January 2008. Comet C/2007 W1 is his first comet discovery, and I suspect there will be more of these to come.

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