TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 5198 SUBJECT: GRB060602B: BOOTES-IR candidate afterglow DATE: 06/06/03 00:30:00 GMT FROM: Martin Jelinek at Inst.Astrophys.Andalucia,Granada Martin Jelinek (IAA CSIC Granada, Spain) Petr Kubánek (ASU AV CR Ondrejov & ISDC, Versoix), Stanislav Vítek (IAA CSIC Granada, Spain) on behalf of the BOOTES collaboration report: Bootes-IR telescope, located at IAA Observatory de Sierra Nevada, observed position of GRB 060602B (Trigger 213190), starting 10.7 sec post GCN notice (= 14.5 min post GRB). We obtained a series of R-band exposures. An object with R ~ 16 mag is shown at RA 17:49:20.14 DEC -28:07:17.95 (J2000) with estimated uncertanity 1 arcsec which is not at GSC-2 and USNO catalogues. It is also not visible at DSS. According to MPC, there is not any know asteroid nearby. We qualify this object as a possible GRB counterpart. Futher analysis, as well as observations, are in progress. [GCN OPS NOTE(03jun06): Per authors' request, AJC-T was withdrawn from the authors list as it was unintensionally included.]