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Today at around 8h UT minor planet (168) Sibylla (mag 13.2) passed AK Cnc at a distance of less than 1 arcmin. Regards, Patrick On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:54:51AM +0900, Makoto Uemura wrote: > AK Cnc? Possibly new object? outburst > > Following the report of the outburst of AK Cnc by R. Stubbings in > [vsnet-outburst 5251], we, the Kyoto team, started observation of AK > Cnc at Feb. 23, 14:20 (UT). We have then found an outbursting object, > but the position is not that of AK Cnc. See the following gif image. > > http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/vsnet/DNe/AK_Cnc/akcnctmp.gif > > The object is about 13.5mag, but is the marked object AK Cnc? > Confirmation is urgently needed. > There is 19th mag USNO stars near the object > It may be a new eruptive object. > > Regards, > Makoto Uemura, Ryoko Ishioka
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