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Old 05-06-2016, 05:50 PM
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The region of interest has no comets known to Sky Safari. However there is a likelihood it could be (141) Lumen, a mag 12.6 main belt asteroid.
Lumen is not noted as being an extended object (i.e. having outgassing) ...

Wiki has this to say about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/141_Lumen

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Regards,
Tony Barry
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