P/2018 L5 (Leonard)

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Type: Periodic Perihelion date: 5 May 2018 Perihelion distance (q): 2.3 Aphelion distance (Q) : 5.0 Period (years): 6.9 Eccentricity (e): 0.36 Inclination (i): 2.2 JPL orbit diagram COBS lightcurve Greg Leonard discovered a comet of 19th magnitude in Mt Lemmon Survey images taken with the 1.5m reflector on 14 June 2018. It was placed on the PCCP as ZLB3D4B. Observations (VEMag = visual equivalent magnitude) Date 10x10 mag Error VEmag Coma ' 21-Aug-18 19.02 0.11 18.7 0.2 04-Sep-18 18.55 0.05 17.5 0.3 01-Oct-18 18.26 0.07 17.8 0.2 11-Oct-18 18.70 0.06 18.1 0.2