Barnard's Comet of 1889 Returns

The Minor Planet Center reports the discovery by L. Buzzi of the Schiaparelli
Observatory, Varese, Italy of comet P/2006 M3.

Computations by Green strongly suggests it is Barnard's comet of 1889 (c). Returning with a about a 128 year period.

Welcome back.

New orbit estimate is 119 year period, with apperihelion at about 1.1 AU and eccentricity of 0.95.

Here is the original (pdf)

No picture yet from the current observations. Maybe someone will get one up tomorrow.