Electronic Telegram No. 4007
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA  02138; U.S.A.
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COMET C/2014 U3 (KOWALSKI)
     R. A. Kowalski reports his discovery of a comet with a circular coma
approximately 15" in diameter surrounding a diffuse core as seen in
four co-added 30-s CCD exposures taken with the Catalina Sky Survey's
0.68-m Schmidt telescope (discovery observations tabulated below).

     2014 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Mag.   Observer
     Oct. 26.41191    8 49 36.16   +46 22 10.2   19.6   Kowalski
          26.44422    8 49 33.60   +46 22 59.8   18.4     "
          26.48487    8 49 30.33   +46 23 58.5   18.7     "
          26.49359    8 49 29.46   +46 24 10.0   18.7     "
          26.50231    8 49 28.84   +46 24 23.1   18.7     "
          26.51106    8 49 28.20   +46 24 35.7   18.7     "

After the object was posted on the Minor Planet Center's NEOCP webpage, K.
Sarneczky (Konkoly Observatory) and P. Szekely (University of Szeged) report
that the object shows a 20" fan-shaped coma with total magnitude 18.2 as
measured within a circular aperture of radius 10" from three stacked 90-s
unfiltered images taken the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Piszkesteto, Hungary,
on Oct. 27.17 UT.
     The available astrometry, the following preliminary parabolic orbital
elements by G. V. Williams, and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2014-U98.

     T = 2014 July 15.1145 TT         Peri. = 270.8217
                                      Node  = 139.8084  2000.0
     q = 0.241821 AU                  Incl. = 148.8525


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2014 October 27                  (CBET 4007)              Daniel W. E. Green