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...only thing remarkable about the discovery is that I found the comet during the very first scan of the sky the first clear night after our summer monsoons ended," Tucker says...
...comet appeared in his electronic search program for Near-Earth Objects, which regularly scans...
Unbeknownst to Tucker at the time, the LONEOS program, a professional search effort at Lowell Observatory, had already sighted the comet, but the program mistook the comet for a common Main Belt asteroid...
According to Daniel W. E. Green, Associate Director of CBAT, Williams and Tucker are unusual in that neither had ever discovered a comet before...
...Over 95 percent of comet reports are false alarms, he adds. "Since the Edgar Wilson Award was announced, many more false alarms have come up, to the point that a quarter of reports are not worth checking out, simply because the observer will say that he saw `something streaking across...