The "Comet-Meyer" Homepage!

First of all, some personal data:
 

• I am: Maik Meyer and that's what I look like.
• I was born 1970 in the wonderful little town of Frauenstein/Saxony and now I live in Linter near Limburg.
• I work as the head of the DKD calibration laboratory for form and roughness and as a member of the centre of competence of measuring technology at Taylor Hobson in Weiterstadt.

• I am Assistant Editor of the International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) and founder of the Comets Mailing List.
• Images taken at the Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2002 Conference in Berlin.
• With my friend Gary W. Kronk I co-authored volumes 5 and 6 of Cometography
• In 2023, volume 1 of the Catalog of Unconfirmed Comets, 1600 - 1899" was published.
• ICQ-Observer-Code: MEY
• Number of observed comets since December 1987:

• My equipment for the observation of comets:
  • A 10"-Dobsonian
  • Carl Zeiss Jena Jenoptem 10x50W binoculars (1987)
  • 3.5x15 Theatis Carl Zeiss Jena opera glass (1945)
  • 12-cm f/5 refractor
  • 15-cm f/6 refractor

• Feel free to mail: maik [at] comethunter . de

Some results of my amateur work:

• The discovery of comet P/2001 Q11
• The Meyer comet group
• An unknown comet of 1991
• 40 SOHO comets
• 16 minor planets
• A new and improved orbit for comet C/1558 P1 (Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 24(3), 697-702 (2021)).
• The Misunderstood Comet: The Curious History of Comet C/1618 V1 (Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 29(1), 93-108 (2026)).
• Cometography, volume 5, Cambridge University Press (2010), co-authored with Gary W. Kronk
• Cometography, volume 6, Cambridge University Press (2017), co-authored with Gary W. Kronk and D. A. Seargent

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• Identifications
  • D/1978 C2 = P/2003 T1 = 157P/Tritton (IAUC 8215), with Sebastian F. Hönig
  • D/1896 R2 = P/2008 R6 = 205P/Giacobini (IAUC 8975)
  • D/1892 T1 = P/2008 T3 = 206P/Barnard-Boattini (IAUC 8995)
  • D/1960 S2 = P/2012 TB₃₆ = 271P/van Houten-Lemmon (CBET 3270)
  • D/1827 M1 = P/2012 V4 = 273P/Pons-Gambart (CBET 3321) - How many comets were discovered by J. L. Pons?
  • Linkage of 325P/Yang-Gao and X/1951 K1 after re-measurement of the 1951 plates.
  • Identification of ancient comets C/1385 U1 and C/1457 A1 with 12P/Pons-Brooks (ArXiv preprint). See also CBET 4727.
  • Confirmation of comet C/1951 G1 (Groeneveld)
  • Confirmation of comet C/1971 M1 (Edwards)
  • Confirmation of comet C/1951 G2 = C/1952 C1 (Groeneveld-Palomar)
  • Confirmation of comet C/1808 R1 (Pons)
  • Identification of P/1894 F1 (Denning) with 2007 HE4
  • The Great Comet C/1743 X1: Possible Identification in Historic Records of 1402, 1032, 676, and 336 (Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 28(1), 29-49 (2025)).

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• I have done some pre(dis)covery work on comets and minor planets. These include
  • Orbit improvement for comet C/1996 R3
  • Comet P/2003 L1 (Scotti)
  • Comet 159P/2003 UD16 (LONEOS)
  • Comet 160P/2004 NL21 (LINEAR), see also A/CC
  • Comet 163P/2004 V4 (NEAT), see also my special page.
  • Comet 170P/2005 M1 (Christensen)
  • Comet 186P/2007 B3 = 1977 O1 (Garradd)
  • Comet 211P/2008 X1 (Hill) = 2003 F6
  • Comet P/2008 Y3 (McNaught)
  • Comet 254P/McNaught (IAUC 9240)
  • The Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2003 VS2
  • The Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2004 DW
  • The Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2004 SB60
  • The Possibly Hazardous Object (PHO) 2003 FC5
  • Comet P/2003 QX29 (NEAT)
  • Comet C/2003 S3 (LINEAR)

In January 2004, the minor planet (52005) Maik was named after me by the discoverers:

Maik             52005          Graduate Engineer

(52005) Maik = 2002 CL13
     Discovered 2002 Feb. 8 by C. W. Juels and P. R. Holvorcem at
Fountain Hills.
     Maik Meyer (b. 1970), an amateur astronomer whose passion is
comets, identified the Meyer Group of near-sun comets in 2002.  Since
1998 he has authored the Catalogue of Comet Discoveries that is
available on the Internet, and he has also been serving as an assistant
editor of the International Comet Quarterly.

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MPC-Ephemeride

Last update: June 13, 2026