Miss Mitchell's Comet (formally designated C/1847 T1) is a
non-periodic comet
The following is a list of comets with a very high eccentricity (generally 0.99 or higher) and a period of over 1,000 years that do not quite have a high enough velocity to escape the Solar System. Often, these comets, due to their extreme semimaj ...
that American
astronomer
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Maria Mitchell discovered in 1847.
The discovery was initially credited to
Francesco de Vico. Vico, observing from Rome, was the first to report the comet's discovery in Europe. However, Mitchell observed the comet two days before Vico did, so she became recognized as the comet's discoverer.
The comet had a weakly hyperbolic orbit solution while inside the planetary region of the Solar System.
[ An orbit solution when the comet is outside of the planetary region shows that the comet is bound to the Sun.
]
References
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Non-periodic comets
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