Discoveries by Pan-STARRS

1I/ʻOumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Canadian Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakalā Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, approximately 40 days after it passed its closest point to the Sun on 9 September. When it was first observed, it was about 33 million km (21 million mi; 0.22 AU) from Earth (about 85 times as far away as the Moon) and already heading away from the Sun.

non-periodic comet

thumb|For four years beginning in May 2010, the Pan-STARRS observatory surveyed the entire three-quarters of the sky visible from Hawaii many times in many colors of light. One of the survey's goals was to look for moving objects and transient or variable objects, including asteroids that could potentially threaten the Earth.

near-Earth asteroid and quasi-satellite of Earth

311P/PanSTARRS, also known as P/2013 P5 (PanSTARRS), is an active asteroid and Encke-type comet discovered by Bryce T. Bolin using the Pan-STARRS telescope on 27 August 2013. Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that it had six comet-like tails. The tails are suspected to be streams of material ejected by the asteroid as a result of a rubble pile asteroid spinning fast enough to remove material from it. This is similar to 331P/Gibbs, which was found to be a quickly-spinning rubble pile as well.

near-Earth object

asteroid

retrograde asteroid discovered in 2014

tiny near-Earth asteroid or artificial object

Earth trojan

Trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

asteroid that is a quasi-satellite of the Earth

comet discovered in 2017

asteroid

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

asteroid

trans-Neptunian object

comet

asteroid

asteroid

Trans-Neptunian object

non-periodic comet

trans-Neptunian object

comet, inner Oort cloud object, and Amor near-Earth object

Trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object

trans-neptunian object

asteroid that is a quasi-satellite of the Earth

oort cloud comet

oort cloud comet

asteroid

Trans-Neptunian object, centaur, damocloid

Trans-Neptunian object

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asteroid

Trans-Neptunian object

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disintegrated active main-belt asteroid

Centaur (small Solar System body)

transneptunian