C/2014 W2 (PANSTARRS)

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Type: Periodic Perihelion date: 10 March 2016 Perihelion distance (q): 2.7 Aphelion distance (Q) : 3,171 Period (years): 63,217 Eccentricity (e): 1.00 Inclination (i): 82.0 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 ' 26-Nov-14 17.13 0.04 16.3 0.2 11-Dec-14 17.01 0.06 16.5 0.2 18-Dec-14 17.07 0.05 16.4 0.2 25-Dec-14 17.04 0.08 16.8 0.2 14-Jan-15 16.98 0.03 16.7 0.2 22-Jan-15 17.03 0.04 16.7 0.2 17-Aug-15 15.20 0.06 13.1 0.2 27-Aug-15 15.45 0.04 14.4 0.2 09-Sep-15 15.49 0.01 14.4 0.5 16-Sep-15 14.93 0.02 13.8 0.5 23-Sep-15 14.77 0.02 13.6 0.3 08-Oct-15 14.96 0.01 13.8 0.5 20-Oct-15 14.42 0.02 12.8 0.7 03-Nov-15 14.74 0.00 13.2 0.5 10-Nov-15 14.56 0.02 12.8 0.5 17-Nov-15 14.52 0.02 12.8 0.6 02-Dec-15 14.42 0.02 12.8 0.9 10-Dec-15 14.49 0.02 12.8 0.7 16-Dec-15 14.48 0.05 12.8 0.8 04-Feb-16 14.79 0.03 13.0 0.5 22-Feb-16 14.45 0.02 12.6 0.6 04-Mar-16 14.49 0.01 12.7 0.7 13-Apr-16 14.42 0.01 12.4 0.7 01-May-16 14.39 0.04 11.9 1.3 16-May-16 14.52 0.08 11.3 1.0 28-May-16 14.58 0.03 12.2 1.4 04-Jun-16 14.37 0.00 11.6 1.4 12-Jun-16 14.47 0.01 11.6 1.5 26-Jun-16 14.97 0.04 11.9 1.4 22-Aug-16 15.45 0.03 12.6 0.4 02-Sep-16 15.57 0.04 12.9 0.8 12-Sep-16 15.71 0.01 12.8 0.8 22-Sep-16 15.63 0.02 12.5 0.9 26-Feb-17 16.94 0.10 14.8 0.6 29-Mar-17 16.86 0.02 14.7 0.4 06-Apr-17 16.93 0.05 14.7 0.4 21-Apr-17 16.95 0.01 15.1 0.5 19-May-17 16.69 0.02 14.2 0.7 28-May-17 16.70 0.01 14.9 0.5 29-Jun-17 17.16 0.03 14.3 0.5 14-Jul-17 17.54 0.21 16.1 0.3 26-Jul-17 17.61 0.05 15.9 0.2