Discovery
The 1905 December 23 issue of the Harvard College Observatory Bulletin said that P. Lowell (Lowell Observatory, Arizona, USA) was re-examining the photograph exposed on 1905 November 30.20 that Slipher had found an apparent comet on (see "1905d"), when he found a second comet-looking object. During the course of the 57-minute exposure, the object moved at a rate of 2' per hour, but it was uncertain whether it was moving toward a direction of "south by west or north by east." Lowell said the object exhibited two tails, one pointing toward the north and the other pointing toward the northeast.
Positions
Analysis
This has been treated as a spurious image.
Sources:
Harvard College Observatory Bulletin, No. 216 (1905 Dec. 23)
New York Times, 1905 Dec. 25, p. 1, col. 6
Nature, 73 (1906 Jan. 4), p. 232
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