Cometary Science Newsletter

Issue
122
Month
June 2026
Editor
Michael S. P. Kelley (msk@astro.umd.edu)

Minor Planet Center Newsletter

Hello everyone,

Since February 2023, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) has published a monthly newsletter to share recent developments with users, solicit feedback from the community, and make our processes as transparent as possible. Until recently, the MPC Newsletter was published directly on the MPC website.

The MPC Newsletter has now moved to a new home. This move was motivated by the growing popularity of the newsletter and the need for a better subscription mechanism to reach a broader community.

To subscribe, please visit: https://buttondown.com/MPC_newsletter

It was recently brought to our attention that the comet community was not broadly aware of the newsletter, or more generally of the new tools and developments available from the MPC. The MPC would really like to work more closely with the comet community, to understand the needs and to being able to share our most recent development and get feedback. This newsletter contains a summary of some of the most recent changes, but also explanations on how to contact the MPC for feedback, bug reports and everything else.  If you are interested, please consider subscribing to the newsletter. Previous issues are available on the Archive page: https://buttondown.com/MPC_newsletter/archive/.

Thanks,
Federica Spoto (MPC)