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Candidates for the Edgar Wilson Award must receive the sanction of the CBAT before qualifying for the award. The monetary award is then divided equally among all candidates who discover new comets that year...
...Professionals have increased their searches very dramatically in recent years, not specifically for comets but for asteroids," says CBAT Director Brain G. Marsden. "Several comets have shown up in their searches, making it harder for amateurs to claim original discoveries for themselves...
Amateurs who observe new comets from 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 10, 1998 on must contact the CBAT about their discovery and ascertain that they located the comet in an amateur setting before becoming eligible for the award...
Information on how to contact the CBAT is on the World Wide Web at http://cfa.www.harvard.edu/iau/Comet-Discovery.html....
According to Daniel W. E. Green, Associate Director of CBAT, Williams and Tucker are unusual in that neither had ever discovered a comet before...