Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

Comet C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS)

Discovery

Discovery announced on CBET 3264.

Orbit

The following orbital elements are taken from Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2012-U66:

                                                                                
    C/2012 U1                                                                   
T 2014 June 30.9696 TT        Orbital elements by G. V. Williams                     
q   6.316809             (2000.0)            P               Q                  
                   Peri.   58.0360      +0.2986610      -0.8426146              
                   Node    29.1949      +0.1953216      -0.4056330              
e   1.0            Incl.   66.7319      +0.9341579      +0.3542068              
From 14 observations 2012 Oct. 17-22.

An ephemeris (based on above elements) is available here.

Images

Light Curve

Observations

Photometry

Photometric observations of this comet from the ICQ archive are available here.

Astrometry

Astrometric observations of this comet from the Minor Planet Center archive are available here.

Links

A list of published articles/papers related to this comet from the Astrophysics Data System are available here.

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