Comet Skorichenko–George (sometimes spelled Scorichenko–George), formally designated as C/1989 Y1, 1990 VI, and 1989e₁, is a non-periodic comet co-discovered by astronomers Boris Skorichenko and Doug George on December 17, 1989. It has a hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun,^[3] but still weakly bound to it by its barycenter.^[4]

It was discovered on December 17, 1989 by Doug George of Kanata (near Ottawa), Ontario, Canada, and Soviet astronomer Boris Skoritchenko (Mezmay, Krasnodar Krai). Skoritchenko was using 8×20 binoculars,^[5] whilst George was using a 16" reflector and had searched for 65 hours^[6]. The comet was magnitude 10.5 in the northern evening sky. It passed its perihelion on April 11, 1990 at a distance of 1.57 AU (235 million km),^[3] and remained visible as a magnitude 9–10 object in the night sky until April 1990

C₂ emission bands were observed in the comet Skorichenko-George. Unlike most comets, Skorichenko–George did not produce a tail.^[7] Its coma remained consistently diffuse, estimated to be around 190,000–290,000 km (120,000–180,000 mi) in diameter.^[7]

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