C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS)

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Type: Periodic Perihelion date: 9 December 2015 Perihelion distance (q): 2.1 Aphelion distance (Q) : 337 Period (years): 2,212 Eccentricity (e): 0.99 Inclination (i): 64.7 JPL orbit diagram COBS lightcurve A 21st magnitude comet was discovered in PanSTARRS 1 images taken with the 1.8m Ritchey-Chretien on 22 September 2014. Observations (VEMag = visual equivalent magnitude) Date 10x10 mag Error VEmag Coma ' 17-Aug-15 14.55 0.03 12.4 0.7 25-Aug-15 14.19 0.01 12.5 0.6 17-Oct-15 12.40 0.01 10.2 1.1 23-Oct-15 12.37 0.03 10.2 1.6 31-Oct-15 12.07 0.02 9.4 1.7 05-Nov-15 12.12 0.03 9.4 3.0 21-Nov-15 11.50 0.04 8.4 1.7 21-Nov-15 11.50 0.04 8.4 2.4 02-Dec-15 11.76 0.02 8.8 2.9 09-Dec-15 11.79 0.03 8.9 2.3 13-Dec-15 11.56 0.04 8.7 2.5 18-Dec-15 11.20 0.03 8.2 2.3 22-Dec-15 11.20 0.02 7.9 2.9 04-Feb-16 11.88 0.01 8.5 4.2 07-Feb-16 11.66 0.01 8.3 3.8 27-Feb-16 11.62 0.05 8.4 3.8 04-Mar-16 11.98 0.01 8.6 3.3 17-Mar-16 12.30 0.02 8.9 3.2 28-Mar-16 12.84 0.04 9.6 3.2 12-Apr-16 13.15 0.01 9.8 3.8 12-Apr-16 13.12 0.02 9.8 5.0 01-May-16 13.27 0.04 10.1 2.7 28-May-16 14.19 0.01 10.7 3.0 03-Jun-16 14.32 0.01 10.8 2.6 08-Jun-16 14.47 0.05 11.0 2.4 20-Jun-16 14.79 0.02 11.6 1.2