TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16698 SUBJECT: GRB 140817A draft circular on nearby galaxy DATE: 14/08/17 16:46:49 GMT FROM: Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift GRB 140817A Close to nearby galaxy J. R. Cummings, K. L. Page (U Leicester) on behalf of the Swift science team: We note the presence of a low-redshift galaxy in DSS, SDSS, 2MASS (SIMBAD) whose center is 98 arcseconds from the center of the Swift-XRT refined position error circle (Osborne, GCN Circ. # 16697), MCG+10-12-141 at z ~ 0.018368. The angular size of the galaxy is about 0.8 arcmin.