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Dear colleagues, I searched pre-discovery rendezvous of a new bright comet C/2003 K2, which had been visible in SOHO's SWAN web site images in April. Here is the list of major rendezvous which might cause "discovery by chance" or "photograph by chance". Around the time when the discovery was announced by IAUC, it passed by a famous variable star EG Cnc. Please see the web pages for more information: http://vsnet.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html Best regards, 2003 May 29 18h UT 0.327 deg ( 19.6 arcmin) C/2003 K2 08h42m.8 +27o33' 14.7 mag EG Cnc (NL) 08h43m.1 +27o52' 11.9-17.0 mag 2003 May 14 21h UT 0.170 deg ( 10.2 arcmin) C/2003 K2 07h01m.6 +30o21' 13.0 mag RS Gem (SRB) 07h01m.6 +30o31' 9.1-12.0 mag 2003 May 13 0h UT 0.082 deg ( 4.9 arcmin) C/2003 K2 06h47m.2 +30o21' 12.8 mag X Gem (M) 06h47m.1 +30o17' 7.5-13.8 mag 2003 May 13 0h UT 0.045 deg ( 2.7 arcmin) C/2003 K2 06h47m.2 +30o21' 12.8 mag NSV 03203 (?) 06h47m.3 +30o19' 10.7-11.3 mag 2003 May 12 14h UT 0.399 deg ( 23.9 arcmin) C/2003 K2 06h44m.0 +30o20' 12.8 mag DM Gem (NA) 06h44m.2 +29o57' 4.8-16.5 mag 2003 May 10 15h UT 0.283 deg ( 17.0 arcmin) C/2003 K2 06h28m.7 +30o13' 12.6 mag RT Aur (DCEP) 06h28m.6 +30o30' 5.0-5.8 mag 2003 May 4 10h UT 0.331 deg ( 19.8 arcmin) C/2003 K2 05h39m.7 +29o02' 11.9 mag AW Aur (M) 05h40m.0 +28o43' 12.0-<16.0 mag 2003 Apr. 27 14h UT 0.292 deg ( 17.5 arcmin) C/2003 K2 04h46m.7 +26o27' 11.3 mag RV Tau (RVB) 04h47m.1 +26o11' 9.8-13.3 mag 2003 Apr. 18 23h UT 0.286 deg ( 17.1 arcmin) C/2003 K2 03h44m.6 +21o42' 10.7 mag V701 Tau (UG:) 03h44m.0 +21o57' 15.0-<21.0 mag 2003 Apr. 16 1h UT 0.021 deg ( 1.3 arcmin) C/2003 K2 03h25m.1 +19o50' 10.6 mag SV Ari (N:) 03h25m.1 +19o50' 12.5-<17.5 mag -- Seiichi Yoshida comet@aerith.net http://vsnet.aerith.net/
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