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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas O'Hara PhD <thomasohara@yahoo.com>
Subject: AstroAlert: Bright New Comet
To: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latrade.com>
--- Roger Herzler <rherzler@cts.com> wrote:
> From: "Roger Herzler" <rherzler@cts.com>
> To: "Thomas O'Hara PhD" <thomasohara@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fw: [ASTRO] AstroAlert: Bright New Comet
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:01:01 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Klaes <lklaes@bbn.com>
> To: astro@lists.mindspring.com <astro@lists.mindspring.com>
> Cc: Andrew LePage <lepage@visidyne.com>; Ron Dantowitz <ron@dantowitz.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 2:46 PM
> Subject: [ASTRO] AstroAlert: Bright New Comet
>
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> >>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:33:24 -0400
> >>To: comet@skypub.com
> >>From: "Roger W. Sinnott" <rsinnott@skypub.com>
> >>Subject: AstroAlert: Bright New Comet
> >>Sender: owner-comet@skypub.com
> >>
> >>
> >>NEW COMET 1999 N2
> >>
> >>On July 13th, Australian amateur Daniel W. Lynn of Kinglake
> >>West, Victoria, discovered an 8th-magnitude comet moving
> >>rapidly northeast through the constellation Hydra. He was
> >>using 10 x 50 binoculars. The comet is very low in the western
> >>evening sky and most readily visible from the Southern
> >>Hemisphere, but it seems likely that it will become better
> >>placed for Northern Hemisphere observers during the
> >>next week or so. The discovery was confirmed by V. F.
> >>de Assis Neto in Brazil and also by F. B. Zoltowski in
> >>Australia.
> >>
> >>Zoltowski detected a short tail on CCD images obtained
> >>with his 30-cm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. His measurements
> >>give the comet's position and direction of motion as
> >>follows:
> >>
> >>Date: 1999 July 14 at 9h UT
> >>R.A. 9h 52.1m
> >>Dec. -14d 29'
> >>Motion: 3.68 deg/day toward p.a. 53 deg (northeast)
> >>
> >>No orbit has yet been calculated.
> >>
> >>The announcement was made on IAU Circular 7222, issued today
> >>by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, International
> >>Astronomical Union, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
> >>Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. The above information has been
> >>adapted from that circular, which has further details of
> >>the discovery (http://cfa-www.harvarddot edu/iau/cbat.html).
> >>
> >>The editors at Sky & Telescope magazine are interested in
> >>receiving reports and images of this comet for possible
> >>publication. Sky & Telescope, P.O. Box 9111, Belmont,
> >>Mass. 02478, U.S.A.
> >>
> >>Roger W. Sinnott
> >>Associate Editor
> >>Sky & Telescope
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Thomas O'Hara, PhD
San Diego, California USA
thomasohara@yahoo.com
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