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Comet C/2007 N3 (LULIN)

IAUC 8857: COMET C/2007 N3 (LULIN)

Discovery:

An apparently 19th magnitude asteroidal object discovered by Quanzhi Ye, a student at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China), on images acquired by Chi Sheng Lin (Institute of Astronomy on 2007 july 11.8 UT, National Central University, Jung-Li, Taiwan) with the 0.41-m f/8.8 Ritchey-Chretien reflector in the course of the Lulin Sky Survey , has been found to show marginal cometary appearance by J. Young, who reports that CCD images taken with the Table Mountain 0.61-m reflector on July 17.4 UT in 1" seeing shows a small coma of diameter 2"-3" of total mag 18.8 surrounding a bright central core.

The available astrometry, preliminary parabolic orbital elements (T = 2009 Jan. 7.354 TT, q = 1.18775 AU, i = 178.380 deg, Peri. = 137.379 deg, Node = 338.515 deg, equinox 2000.0), and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2007-O05