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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2188      2006 Jan 09 19.50UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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2006 AT3
Hazel McGee reports:
I am pleased to report my discovery of a near Earth asteroid (2006 AT3) 
on an image downloaded from the 0.9m Spacewatch survey telescope at the 
Steward Observatory at Kitt Peak, for their Fast Moving Object (FMO) 
project.  I downloaded and reported the discovery image at approx. 
06.30UT on 2006 January 7.

The 1.8m Spacewatch II telescope took further images of the object the 
same night and it was reported on the NEO Confirmation Page as SW40V5. 
Richard Miles observed the object with his 0.28-m Schmidt-Cassegrain 
telescope and CCD (without knowing it was mine!) in a two-hour gap in 
the cloud on the night of January 7.  His observations helped to confirm 
the object and the MPC issued MPEC 2006-A38 on 2006 Jan. 8 at 17:12 UT.

Editor:
Here are measures by Richard Miles which subsequently appeared on the 
MPEC:
2006 01 07.85389 07 19 58.79 +24 58 19.9          19.1 V EA038J77
2006 01 07.90353 07 20 12.71 +24 47 21.6          19.3 V EA038J77

J77 Golden Hill Observatory, Stourton Caundle.  Observer R. Miles. 
0.28-m f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD.
M.P.E.C. 2006-A38

Congratulations to Hazel on this outstanding piece of detection work!

Guy M Hurst