[IAUC] CBET 3879: 20140523 : COMET C/2014 F3 (SHEPPARD-TRUJILLO)

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 3879
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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COMET C/2014 F3 (SHEPPARD-TRUJILLO)
     Scott S. Sheppard, Carnegie Institution for Science; and Chadwick A.
Trujillo, Gemini Observatory, report the discovery of a new comet in three
VR-band CCD exposures taken with the Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo on
Mar. 26 and 28; in each 6-min exposure, the object has a distinct non-stellar
diffuse coma with no visible tail.  Sheppard obtained additional observations
of the comet with the 6.5-m Magellan telescope on May 23; in three 7-min
exposures, the comet shows an obvious diffuse coma.

     2014 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Mag.   Observer
     Mar. 26.32854   13 52 55.75   -18 12 39.8   23.0   Sheppard
          26.38898   13 52 55.00   -18 12 36.6   23.1     "
          28.27904   13 52 31.13   -18 11 03.4   23.0     "
     May  22.99495   13 39 56.02   -17 04 22.1            "
          23.01724   13 39 55.78   -17 04 19.8            "
          23.02407   13 39 55.68   -17 04 19.4            "

The following elliptical orbital elements by G. V. Williams and an ephemeris
appear on MPEC 2014-K30.

     T = 2021 July 29.1582 TT         Peri. =   4.1724
     e = 0.632010                     Node  = 328.2617  2000.0
     q = 5.566979 AU                  Incl. =   6.5255
       a = 15.128081 AU    n = 0.0167505    P =  58.8 years


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2014 May 23                      (CBET 3879)              Daniel W. E. Green