P/2021 U3 (Attard-Maury)

P/2021 U3 (Attard-Maury) is a comet of the Jupiter family discovered on October 24, 2021 by Georges Attard and Alain Maury.. . The comet had a magnitude of 19 at the time of its discovery. It is the second comet discovered using the synthetic tracking technique, using the Tycho software, as part of the MAP Observation Program.

Discovery
The comet was discovered on October 24, 2021 by Georges Attard, an amateur astronomer from Mougins, and Alain Maury, a former astronomer at the CERGA and the Palomar Observatory, now director of the astronomical resources center Space in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

Method and Observation Program
To detect near-Earth objects, Alain Maury, Georges Attard, and Daniel Parrott designed the MAP project. This project is based on a method, observation telescopes, processing software, and of course, diligent observers.

Characteristics
The characteristics are detailed in the database of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) and in the database of JPL's Solar System Dynamics group at (Caltech/NASA)

The orbital period is 8 and a half years. Its trajectory can be observed in the small bodies database

The aphelion is 6.56 AU, close to the orbit of Jupiter.