2005IAUC.8468....3N

H. Navasardyan, S. Benetti, N. Elias-Rosa, and A. Harutunyan, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova; and A. Pastorello, Max-Planck- Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching, on behalf of the European RTN colllaboration (cf. IAUC 7987), report that a spectrum of SN 2005G (cf. IAUC 8465), obtained on Jan. 18.16 UT with the Asiago 1.8-m telescope (+ AFOSC; range 355-780 nm, resolution 2.4 nm), shows it to be a type-Ia supernova about 10 days past maximum. The spectrum closely resembles that of SN 1994D (Patat et al. 1996, MNRAS 278, 111) at comparable phase. The expansion velocity deduced from the Si II 635.5-nm minimum is about 9400 km/s (adopting the NED recession velocity of 6938 km/s for the parent galaxy).