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Table 2

Observed comets with the OSO 20-m telescope.

Comet Observing UT date range Int. time (h) Rh (au) ∆ (au) d (km)
C/2016U1 (NEOWISE) 2016-12-22–2017-01-10 14 0.71–0.34 0.75–1.07 5.2 × 104
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusáková 2017-01-18–2017-02-06 31 0.65–0.90 0.36–0.11 7.0 × 103
2P/Encke 2017-03-04–2017-03-17 15 0.37–0.38 0.75–0.68 4.1 × 104
41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák 2017-04-04–2017-04-24 170 1.05–1.06 0.14–0.17 8.7 × 103
C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS) 2017-04-06–2017-05-09 12 1.19–1.04 1.21–1.23 7.1 × 104
C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy) 2017-04-07 8 0.63 0.67 3.9 × 103
C/2015 V2 (Johnson) 2017-05-18–2017-05-19 13 1.67 0.87 5.0 × 104
C/2017 O1 (ASASSN1) 2017-10-12–2017-10-15 30 1.50 0.73-0.72 4.2 × 104
96P/Machholz 2017-10-30 5 0.16 1.04 6.0 × 104
46P/Wirtanen 2018-12-08–2019-01-18 232 1.06–1.16 0.096–0.22 4.7 × 103
C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) 2019-02-04–2019-02-19 38 1.29–1.30 0.46–0.39 2.4 × 104
2I/Borisov 2019-10-28–2019-11-18 89 2.21–2.06 2.66–2.18 1.4 × 105

Notes. Towards 96P/Machholz only CH3OH was searched for. Both HCN and CH3OH were observed in 46P/Wirtanen. For the rest of the comets, only HCN was targeted.

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