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C/2012 L3 (LINEAR) - confirmation

CBET 3137 issued on  June 11 2012, annouces the discovery of COMET C/2012 L3 (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 11.4 with a 0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph located at the RAS Observatory (iTelescope network) near Mayhill; his stacked unfiltered images show a coma of size 11", elongated toward the south (p.a. 190 deg), no clear tail was visible

astrometry and orbital elements of this comet can you find in the M.P.E.C. 2012-L27 , issued on the same day by Minor Planet Center.