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169P/NEAT (= 2002 EX2)

IAUC 8578: COMET P/2002 EX_12 (NEAT)

     An apparently asteroidal object reported by NEAT, and designated 2002 EX_12 (discovery observation given below; cf. MPS 52825), has been reported as showing a cometary appearance by observers at two different sites.  B. D. Warner, Colorado Springs, CO, writes that his CCD frames taken with a 0.35-m Schmidt- Cassegrain reflector on 2005 July 28.26 UT show a 77" tail in p.a. 144 deg, while frames taken on July 29.26 show a 90" tail in p.a. 145 deg.  A. Fitzsimmons, Queen's University, Belfast, reports that the object showed no coma but a faint, straight tail extending 30" in p.a. 145 deg on R-band images taken on July 29.5 with the 2.0-m 'Faulkes Telescope North' at Haleakala; he adds that observations with that telescope on 2005 May 10.5 and with the 3.5-m New Technology Telescope on May 14.3 did not obviously show a tail….