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C/1999 K8 |
C/1999 K8 (LINEAR) is discovered on May 26: L.Sarounova (Ondrejov), M.Tichy and Z.Moravec (Klet) and R. A.Koff (Thornton) proved its being a comet (ref.: MPEC 1999-K44).
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C/1999 K7 |
C/1999 K7 (LINEAR) is discovered on May 24: confirmed to be a comet by D. D. Balam (Victoria) (ref.: MPEC 1999-K37).
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C/1999 K6 |
C/1999 K6 (LINEAR) is found on May 20 and identified as a comet by L. Sarounova (Ondrejov) and M. Tichy and Z. Moravec (Klet) (ref.: MPEC 1999-K35).
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C/1999 K5 |
C/1999 K5 (LINEAR) is discovered on May 20: should pass its perihelion on July 20, 2000 at about 3.3 AU (ref.: MPEC 1999-K33).
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C/1999 K4 |
C/1999 K4 (LINEAR) is discovered on May 17 and proved to be a comet by M. Hicks (Table Mt.), and C. W. Hergenrother, A. E. Gleason (Catalina) a few days later (ref.: IAUC 7176).
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C/1999 K3 |
C/1999 K3 (LINEAR) is found on May 20. The object has been identified as a comet by M. Elowitz (Lincoln Laboratory) (ref.: IAUC 7175).
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C/1999 J4 |
C/1999 J4 (LINEAR) is discovered on May 15. Two days later several observers reported about the object's coma and tail, and thus confirmed its being a comet (ref.: IAUC 7170).
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C/1999 J3 |
and C/1999 J3 (LINEAR) is found and initially announced as an asteroid on May 12: the next day it has already been recognized as a comet by Klet observers (ref.: IAUC 7166).
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