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RE: Comet C/2012 B3 (LA SAGRA)

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Google earth file: Comet C2012 B3 (LA SAGRA).kmz (18kb, kmz)

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Discovery of C/2012 B3 (LA SAGRA) and sexing baby chicks

As our previous report: "Discovery of 2010 R2 (La Sagra) and the High Speed Rail" we would like, on behalf of all the OAM-La Sagra Sky Survey team, to write few lines again regarding the feelings and curiosities around this new comet discovery.
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La Sagra Sky Survey "observes" by means of 3 telescopes of 45 cms and commercial Sbig 11000 CCD cameras, two of the telescopes were kindly lent by Bill Yeung, yes who won the Edgar Wilson in 2002, discovering P/2002 BV with exactly the same telescope but 8 years before from MPC 333.
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Orbital elements:
    C/2012 B3 (La Sagra)
T 2011 Nov. 29.91022 TT                                 MPC
q   3.5272726            (2000.0)            P               Q
                   Peri.   49.22159     -0.40242645     +0.04243591
                   Node   252.84407     -0.80143978     +0.46644397
e   1.0            Incl.  106.85300     +0.44243330     +0.88353224
From 50 observations 2012 Jan. 29-Feb. 4.

MPEC 2012 - C23

Comet C/2012 B3 (LA SAGRA) was discovered on the 29th January, 2012, by the La Sagra Sky Survey (LSSS).
The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 29th November, 2011, at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun.