Luigi Pansecchi (1940– ) has made fine studies of cometary tails. As a member of the Gruppo Astrofili Giovanni e Angelo Bernasconi and of the Italian Astronomical Society, he collaborated with the Osservatorio San Vittore in Bologna and with the Osservatorio Astronomico of Brera in Milan. (M 41385) _ _.
Discovered on 29-12-1997 in Bologna by Osservatorio San Vittore