[vsnet-chat 406] Re: asteroid encounters with variables

[stars@personal.eunet.fi (Timo Kinnunen)]

>Fraser Farrell wrote in [vsnet-chat 400]:
>
>> Many years ago I embarrassed
>> myself by reporting 5 Astrea - near-stationary at quadrature - as a
>> nova!
>
>    Also many years ago, I was embarassed by an 8-mag asteroid (Pallas?)
>closely near the position of the famous recurrent nova, T CrB.  Being
>rather far from the ecliptic, I could not think of an asteroid.
>What was my excitement at the first sight of the low power field!
>
>Regards,
>Taichi Kato
>

  28.12.1991 I was excited by 9th magnitude Flora near SY Cnc. Some
of you observers must have seen it too.

  I dug from my notes an observation of an unknown object (likely asteroid).
Perhaps someone would like to try to identify it.

Time: 18.9.1986 at 22.00 UT 
Position: 01 37 09 +50 55 50 (2000) - 1.5 arc min south of KT Per 
Magnitude: 13.8

                                        Timo Kinnunen

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