July 21, 2007 at 9:08pm
The comet activity of the object temporary designed as a BD97323 was found on the images taken from A79 on 18/07/2007. A coma diameter of 14 arc sec was measured. After the observations of other observatories the new comet C/2007 O1 (LINEAR) was announced (see IAUC 8858 and MPEC 2007-O10). The preliminary orbit shows that 17m comet already passed perihelion on July 01, 2007.
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