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IAUC 5866: NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS; 1978 XXVII
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Circular No. 5866
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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COMET McNAUGHT-TRITTON (1978 XXVII)
On Aug. 2 R. H. McNaught, Anglo-Australian Observatory, informed
us that he had been able to find another image of the 1978 May 1 comet
he reported on IAUC 5471. This was on a U.K. Schmidt exposure on 1978
Apr. 12 by K. P. Tritton and H. T. MacGillivray. The undersigned then
suggested identity with the other comet mentioned on IAUC 5471, i.e.,
the one discovered by S. B. Tritton on a 1979 Mar. 5 plate (taken by
W. J. Zealey) and the measurements of which were published with an
erroneous date on IAUC 3662. A parabolic orbit solution (T = 1978
Aug. 25, q = 6.28 AU, i = 153 deg) then allowed S. B. Tritton to find
a faint image of the comet on a plate taken by J. A. Dawe on 1980 Jan.
23. The 1978 May 1 image was also independently noticed by D. F. Malin.
1993 September 18 (5866) Brian G. Marsden
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