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C/2012 L1  ( LINEAR )   -  27 may 2012

CBET 3134 issued on  June 5 2012, annouces the discovery of COMET C/2012 L1 (LINEAR) that was discovered by the LINEAR sky Survey and posted on the Minor Planet Center's NEOCP webpage. Several astrometrists including myself have observed this object and observed that this object has comet-like appearance.

My CCD-images obtained , while it was still on the NEOCP, on June 4.3 with a0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph located at the RAS Observatory (iTelescope network) near Mayhill; his stacked unfiltered images show a coma of size 9" x 16", elongated toward the southwest (p.a. 228 deg).

astrometry and orbital elements of this comet can you find in the M.P.E.C. 2012-L12, issued on the same day by Minor Planet Center.

My confirmation image