* Astronomy

COMET P/2006 W4 = P/1993 D1 (HILL)
R. E. Hill reported the discovery of  the comet in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey (discovery observation below), the object  was noted as having a tail about 15" long to the west-northwest.
The object was been found to show cometary appearance by other CCD observers.

2006 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Mag.
Nov. 22.33647    3 11 58.56   +26 23 11.9   19.3

P/2006 W4 (Hill)
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5
T 2009 Jan. 20.5800 TT                                  MPC
q   4.434702             (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.0596457      Peri.  249.6533      -0.5178819      -0.6718764
a   6.487592       Node   243.2635      +0.8176784      -0.5706905
e   0.316433       Incl.   36.3630      -0.2513968      -0.4721170
P  16.5

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