Category: Comets

Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) was discovered in June 2011 by the Pan-STARRS survey telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii, and became a memorable evening-sky visitor in March 2013. Believed to have arrived from the distant Oort Cloud, it traveled inward from the far outer Solar System before passing closest to the Sun on March 10, 2013. PANSTARRS…