Electronic Telegram No. 5747
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(501214) 2013 TC_146
     B. Proudfoot, Florida Space Institute; and W. Grundy, Northern Arizona 
University, report that the centaur (501214) is a tight, approximately 
equal-sized binary, where the secondary is 0.48 +/- 0.09 magnitude fainter 
than the primary.  The binary was discovered in two 300-s Hubble Space 
Telescope exposures taken with the WFC3/UVIS camera (+ F350LP filter) on 2017 
Dec. 13 (HST Program 15344, P.I. D. Jewitt).  At the time of the HST imaging, 
the resolved components were separated by 0".072 +/- 0".002 in p.a. 169.1 +/- 
0.1 deg.  At the time of the first image (2017 Dec. 13.53097 UT), the primary 
was located at R.A. = 21h19m59.74s, Decl. = -13d36'19".8 (equinox J2000.0). 


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