Pan-STARRS
Discoveries

Pan-STARRS

Section Title: Discoveries
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Designation	Reported / Discovered	Comments

2010 ST3	16 September 2010	this NEA, which at the time of discovery had a very slight possibility of colliding with Earth in 2098, was discovered by Pan-STARRS on 16 September 2010.	01

2012 GX17	14 April 2012	this faint ~22nd-magnitude object is a promising Neptune L5 trojan candidate.	02

2013 ND15	13 July 2013	this object is probably the first known Venus L4 trojan.	03

C/2011 L4	6 June 2011	astronomers at the University of Hawaii using the Pan-STARRS Telescope discovered comet C/2011 L4 in June 2011. At the time of discovery it was about 1.2 billion kilometers from the Sun, placing it beyond the orbit of Jupiter.	04

PS1-10afx	31 August 2010	a unique hydrogen-deficient superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift z = 1.388. Discovered first in MDS imaging on 31 August 2010.	05

PS1-10jh	31 May 2010	the tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole.	06

P/2010 T2	16 October 2010	this faint ~20th-magnitude object is the first comet to be discovered by the Pan-STARRS program. Even at perihelion in the summer of 2011 at 3.73 AU it will only be magnitude 19.5.	07

P/2012 B1	25 January 2012	a Pan-STARRS discovery[verification needed]	08

P/2012 T1	6 October 2012	a Pan-STARRS discovery, is one of the very few known main-belt comets.	09

C/2013 P2	4 August 2013	a Pan-STARRS discovery, Manx Comet from Oort cloud, orbital period greater than 51 million years.	10

P/2013 R3	15 September 2013	a Pan-STARRS discovery, disintegration observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.	11

C/2014 S3	22 September 2014	a rocky comet (PANSTARRS).	12

2014 YX49	26 December 2014	a Trojan of Uranus, the second one ever announced.	13

SN 2008id	3 November 2008	a type Ia supernova, confirmed by Keck observatory via redshift.	14

(469219) 2016 HO3	27 April 2016	possibly the most stable quasi-satellite of Earth.	15

2016 UR36	25 October 2016	a NEO - seen 5 days out.	16

C/2017 K2	21 May 2017	a new comet with a hyperbolic orbit and escape velocity.	17

1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua	19 October 2017	the first observation of an interstellar object.	18

(515767) 2015 JA2	31 March 2018	Pan-STARRS 2 (PS2) first minor-planet discovery (made on 13 May 2015) credited by the Minor Planet Center on numbering in March 2018.	19

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In March 2018, Pan-STARRS 2 by the Minor Planet Center of the (515767) 2015 JA₂ was discovered.

final_sentence: In March 2018, Pan-STARRS 2 by the Minor Planet Center of the (515767) 2015 JA₂ was discovered.