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• Press Release: Pan-STARRS Discovers 1st Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (2010 Sep 27)
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• Press Release: Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds New Distant Comet (2011 Jun 16)
• Press Release: Comet Will Be Visible from Hawaii in March (2011 Feb 19)

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Pan-STARRS1 Solar System Papers

• Hsieh, H. H., Yang, B., Haghighipour, N., Kaluna, H. M., Fitzsimmons, A., Denneau, L., Novakovic, B., Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R. J., Armstrong, J. D., Duddy, S. R., Lowry, S. C., Trujillo, C. A., Micheli, M., Keane, J. V., Urban, L., Riesen, T., Meech, K. J., Abe, S., Cheng, Y.-C., Chen, W.-P., Granvik, M., Grav, T., Ip, W.-H., Kinoshita, D., Kleyna, J., Lacerda, P., Lister, T., Milani, A., Tholen, D. J., Veres, P., Lisse, C. M., Kelley, M. S., Fernandez, Y. R., Bhatt, B. C., Sahu, D. K., Kaiser, N., Chambers, K. C., Hodapp, K. W., Magnier, E. A., Price, P. A., & Tonry, J. L. 2012, "Discovery of Main-Belt Comet P/2006 VW₁₃₉ by Pan-STARRS1", ApJ Letters, 748, L15 (pdf) (March 2012)
  
  
• Milani, A., Knezevic, Z., Farnocchia, D., Bernardi, F., Jedicke, R., Denneau, L., Wainscoat, R. J., Burgett, W., Grav, T., Kaiser, N., Magnier, E., Price, P. A. 2012, "Identification of Known Objects in Solar System Surveys", Icarus, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.026 (astro-ph) (April 2012)
  
  
• Hsieh, H. H., Yang, B., Haghighipour, N., Novakovic, B., Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R. J., Denneau, L., Abe, S., Chen, W.-P., Fitzsimmons, A., Granvik, M., Grav, T., Ip, W., Kaluna, H. M., Kinoshita, D., Kleyna, J., Knight, M. M., Lacerda, P., Lisse, C. M., Maclennan, E., Meech, K. J., Micheli, M., Milani, A., Pittichova, J., Schunova, E., Tholen, D. J., Wasserman, L. H., Burgett, W. S., Chambers, K. C., Heasley, J. N., Kaiser, N., Magnier, E. A., Morgan, J. S., Price, P. A., Jorgensen, U. G., Dominik, M., Hinse, T., Sahu, K., & Snodgrass, C. 2011, "Observational and Dynamical Characterization of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)", AJ, 143, 104 (pdf) (May 2012)
  
  
• Denneau, L., Jedicke, R., Grav, T., Granvik, M., Kubica, J., Milani, A., Veres, P., Wainscoat, R., Chang, D., Pierfederici, F., Kaiser, N., Chambers, K. C., Heasley, J. N., Magnier, E. A., Price, P. A., Myers, J., Kleyna, J., Hsieh, H. H., Farnocchia, D., Waters, C., Sweeney, W. H., Green, D., Bolin, B., Burgett, W. S., Morgan, J. S., Tonry, J. L., Hodapp, K. W., Chastel, S., Chesley, S., Fitzsimmons, A., Holman, M., Spahr, T., Tholen, D., Williams, G. V., Abe, S., Armstrong, J. D., Bressi, T. H., Holmes, R., Lister, T., McMillan, R. S., Micheli, M., Ryan, E. V., Ryan, W. H., & Scotti, J. V. 2013, "The Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System", PASP, in press (astro-ph) (February 2013)

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Pan-STARRS1 Comet Discoveries

	Comets	Perihelion	Eccen.	Inclin.	Discovery	Type*
1	P/2010 T2 (PANSTARRS)	3.753 AU	0.324	8.01o	2010 Oct 6	JFC	Orbit
2	C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)	0.302 AU	1.000	84.16o	2011 Jun 6	LPC	Orbit
3	C/2011 P2 (PANSTARRS)	6.147 AU	0.371	8.99o	2011 Aug 3	Centaur	Orbit
4	C/2011 Q1 (PANSTARRS)	6.780 AU	0.998	94.86o	2011 Aug 20	LPC	Orbit
5	253P/PANSTARRS (2011 R2)	2.039 AU	0.413	4.94o	2011 Sep 4	JFC	Orbit
6	P/2011 U1 (PANSTARRS)	2.359 AU	0.419	15.25o	2011 Oct 23	JFC	Orbit
7	C/2011 U3 (PANSTARRS)	1.072 AU	1.001	116.78o	2011 Oct 24	LPC	Orbit
8	P/2011 UA134 (Spacewatch-PANSTARRS)	2.051 AU	0.633	10.54o	2011 Oct 24	JFC	Orbit
9	P/2006 VW139**	2.437 AU	0.201	3.24o	2011 Nov 5	MBC	Orbit
10	P/2011 W1 (PANSTARRS)	3.312 AU	0.289	3.72o	2011 Nov 26	JFC	Orbit
11	C/2012 A1 (PANSTARRS)	7.607 AU	1.001	120.90o	2012 Jan 2	LPC	Orbit
12	P/2012 B1 (PANSTARRS)	3.825 AU	0.410	7.628o	2012 Jan 25	JFC	Orbit
13	P/2012 C3 (PANSTARRS)	3.625 AU	0.626	9.19o	2012 Feb 15	JFC	Orbit
14	C/2012 E3 (PANSTARRS)	3.828 AU	0.983	105.66o	2012 Mar 14	LPC	Orbit
15	P/2012 F2 (PANSTARRS)	2.899 AU	0.541	14.73o	2012 Mar 16	JFC	Orbit
16	C/2012 F3 (PANSTARRS)	3.480 AU	1.000	11.25o	2012 Mar 16	LPC	Orbit
17	P/2012 G1 (PANSTARRS)	2.573 AU	0.384	11.67o	2012 Apr 13	JFC	Orbit
18	258P/PANSTARRS (2012 H1)	3.479 AU	0.209	6.75o	2012 Apr 27	JFC	Orbit
19	C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)	1.265 AU	1.000	142.30o	2012 May 19	LPC	Orbit
20	C/2012 S3 (PANSTARRS)	2.343 AU	1.000	112.94o	2012 Sep 27	LPC	Orbit
21	C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS)	4.324 AU	1.000	126.47o	2012 Sep 28	LPC	Orbit
22	P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)	2.419 AU	0.206	11.40o	2012 Oct 6	MBC	Orbit
23	P/2012 SB6 (Lemmon)**	2.406 AU	0.384	10.98o	2012 Oct 8	JFC	Orbit
24	P/2012 TK8 (Tenagra)**	3.090 AU	0.261	6.29o	2012 Oct 9	JFC	Orbit
25	P/2012 TB36 (Lemmon)**	4.266 AU	0.384	6.97o	2012 Oct 9	Centaur	Orbit
26	P/2012 T2 (PANSTARRS)	4.928 AU	0.118	12.68o	2012 Oct 10	JFC	Orbit
27	P/2012 T3 (PANSTARRS)	2.413 AU	0.594	9.48o	2012 Oct 10	JFC	Orbit
28	C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS)	5.531 AU	1.000	59.56o	2012 Oct 18	LPC	Orbit
29	P/2012 U2 (PANSTARRS)	3.452 AU	0.559	9.93o	2012 Oct 21	JFC	Orbit
30	C/2012 V1 (PANSTARRS)	2.016 AU	1.000	157.86o	2012 Nov 3	LPC	Orbit
31	C/2012 X2 (PANSTARRS)	4.746 AU	0.771	34.13o	2012 Dec 12	JFC	Orbit
32	P/2012 WA34 (Lemmon-PANSTARRS)	3.173 AU	0.340	6.12o	2013 Jan 7	JFC	Orbit
33	P/2013 CE31 (MOSS)**	4.018 AU	0.174	4.72o	2013 Feb 9	JFC	Orbit
34	C/2013 G3 (PANSTARRS)	4.068 AU	0.581	49.60o	2013 Apr 10	LPC	Orbit
35	P/2013 G4 (PANSTARRS)	2.703 AU	0.380	6.04o	2013 Apr 12	JFC	Orbit
36	C/2013 G8 (PANSTARRS)	4.811 AU	1.000	27.72o	2013 Apr 14	LPC	Orbit

^*JFC: Jupiter Family Comet; LPC: Long-Period Comet; MBC: Main-Belt Comet
^**Previously known object discovered to be cometary by PS1

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