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E. Schwab, Egelsbach, Germany, reports his recovery of this comet (cf. 
IAUC 7998) on CCD images that he obtained remotely on two nights with the 
0.8-m f/3 Schmidt reflector at Calar Alto, Spain, as well as on CCD images 
taken at Schwab's request by E. Kuusela with the 1.0-m f/4.4 reflector at the 
European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station, Tenerife.  Twelve 60-s 
exposures taken on Aug. 18.1 and 19.1 UT with the Schmidt telescope show a 
tail about 5" long in p.a. about 250 degrees.  Schwab's measurements of the 
ten stacked 60-s 1.0-m reflector images taken on Aug. 19.2 show a tail about 
8" long in p.a. 250 degrees. 

                   Epoch = 2021 Dec. 12.0 TT 
    T = 2021 Dec. 14.54908 TT        Peri. = 326.73183 
    e = 0.4386730                    Node  = 123.09142 2000.0 
    q = 3.9378768 AU                 Incl. =  30.85150 
      a =  7.0152996 AU   n = 0.05304381   P =  18.58 years