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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:23:20 +0800
From: nicholas brown <nicholas.brown7@bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: [vsnet-campaign-nova 1424] Re: (fwd) nova list update
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taichi Kato" <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: <vsnet-campaign-nova@ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>;
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Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:50 AM
Subject: [vsnet-campaign-nova 1424] Re: (fwd) nova list update
> 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".
>
> Regards,
> Taichi Kato
>
> Dear mr Kato ,I made an independant discovery of nova sgr {v4745}on april
25.73 . I reported it to the IAU on April 26, after i had made a visual
confirmation.
This , therefore makes me as much a discoverer of this nova as mr Yamamoto,
and quite frankly you have a damn
hide stating otherwise!!!
NJBROWN
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