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From John Greaves: Taichi Kato wrote : > Re: (fwd) nova list update > > > > > N Sgr 2003 2003 V4745 Sgr 18 40 02.5 -33 26 55 7.4 V > > <20 j NA N. Brown, M. Yamamoto > > > > I am against counting N. Brown as the discoverer of this nova. > > What action he took was to consider this object as a non-urgent usual > > variable star and simply filed as such. Since he apparently did not > > report on "the discovery of a possible nova" before the discovery > > announcement was made, he didn't "discover a nova". Well, that's interesting, seeing as I used the IAUCs to create the 2003 objects, usually back researching after a month, when the notices and updates finally settled down. My list is a live thing, coz novae keep happening. List compilers have to decide on some publication or other as official reference datum. I'm afraid it's there now, in the archival literature, via an ADS search too nod doubt, no matter what the truth of the matter is. Hence my use of the word "apocryphal" re IAUCs. Cheers John John Greaves
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