Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze)

Discovery

Aren Heinze, University of Hawaii, reported the discovery of a comet on images taken on 2017 Oct. 2.6 UT with the ATLAS 0.5-m f/2 Schmidt telescope at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in the course of the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS) search program, with the object showing a tail about 10" long toward the southwest and a coma diameter of about 7".

The discovery details were announced on CBET 4444.

Orbit and Ephemeris

An ICQ ephemeris is available here.

Orbital elements and an ephemeris from the Minor Planet Center are available here.

Orbit diagram

An orbit diagram, when available, is posted here.

Images

Images, when available, are posted here.

Light curve

A light curve of the photometry, when available, is posted here.

Photometry

Published/tabulated photometric observations, when available, are posted here.

Recent 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.