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Regarding 2017 FL36


 

Hi Mira-Ao,
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It's almost certain that 2017 FL36 was active in 2017. This is my current list of items in the asteroid file which are too bright to be inactive and yet only observed on a single opposition, so you can infer that they were likely active during their one apparition. There are a few others that have been removed from this list when they were moved to the comet orbits list. The first 6 of them I'm more or less certain of. The last 3 are simply suspected as being active, and there's some small chance that they are ordinary and have simply been missed due to bad luck for the surveys in recovering them.
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Also, given the clear activity of 2017 FL36 in the Subaru images, it removes all doubt for me. It's a formality though that makes sense¡ªMPC needs a second report of activity and without that it remains on the PCCP even though it's certainly an active asteroid. I also don't fully understand what the policy is regarding single-opposition active asteroids and whether they always move them to the comet orbits file or sometimes prefer to leave them in the asteroids orbit file since the orbit is asteroidal.
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Designation Rating TJ
2008 BJ22 0.99999726 3.198039543
2001 BV70 0.99999726 2.947403141
2019 OE31 0.9999883 3.006167013
2015 BC566 0.99998224 3.199087267
2017 FL36 0.99980015 3.221096601
2021 AY8 0.9997931 3.348862983
2015 MR207 0.9986854 3.237052317
2015 BA553 0.9982122 3.134370005
2002 CW116 0.9981375 3.319114684


 

Thanks, how did you come up with that list, there are objects that are not on the PCCP, not announced in the MPS, etc.

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Mira-Ao


 

ML model that takes orbital parameters and predicts likelihood of being 3+ oppositions.


 

MPEC has been released, but certainly with this object, cannot tell the tail is there unless using Subaru.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P2017FL36_20170401.png