TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5975 SUBJECT: GRB 061222A: Gemini Afterglow Candidate DATE: 06/12/23 03:26:07 GMT FROM: S. Bradley Cenko at Caltech S. B. Cenko (Caltech) and D. B. Fox (Penn State) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We have imaged the field of GRB061222A (Grupe et al, GCN 5954) with the Near-Infrared Imager mounted on the Gemini-North telescope. Observations were taken in the Ks filter at a mean epoch of ~ 5:50 Dec. 22 UT. Inside the revised XRT error circle (Grupe et al, GCN 5966), we find one faint source at location (J2000.0): RA: 23:53:03.40 Dec: +46:31:58.5 (+/- 1.0"). Based on several 2MASS stars in the field, we measure a magnitude of Ks ~ 20.5, with large uncertainty dominated by both the faintness of the object and photometric uncertainty. At this point we cannot determine if the object is variable or not. Further observations are planned.