[IAUC] CBET 3131: 20120530 : COMET C/2012 K6 (McNAUGHT)
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Electronic Telegram No. 3131
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A.
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COMET C/2012 K6 (McNAUGHT)
R. H. McNaught reports his discovery of a comet (discovery observations
tabulated below) on CCD images taken with the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope
at Siding Spring. Follow-up images taken by McNaught on May 29.8 UT show a
coma of diameter about 10", while further exposures on May 30.8 show the
comet extended to the northwest by a few arc seconds.
2012 UT R.A. (2000) Decl. Mag. Observer
May 27.78322 22 23 22.02 -66 09 47.6 18.4 McNaught
27.79276 22 23 21.56 -66 09 56.7 18.5 "
27.80239 22 23 20.95 -66 10 06.6 18.5 "
27.81199 22 23 20.50 -66 10 15.8 18.7 "
27.82579 22 23 19.77 -66 10 29.6 18.5 "
27.82883 22 23 19.60 -66 10 32.8 18.8 "
The available astrometry, the following preliminary parabolic orbital
elements by G. V. Williams, and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2012-K72.
T = 2013 Mar. 12.4644 TT Peri. = 310.0428
Node = 199.6984 2000.0
q = 4.313172 AU Incl. = 135.0475
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(C) Copyright 2012 CBAT
2012 May 30 (CBET 3131) Daniel W. E. Green
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