C/1847 T1 (Mitchell)

Miss Mitchell's Comet, formally designated as C/1847 T1, is a non-periodic comet that American astronomer Maria Mitchell discovered in 1847.^[5]

C/1847 T1 (Mitchell)

Discovery[1][2]
Discovered by	Maria Mitchell
Discovery site	Nantucket, Massachusetts
Discovery date	1 October 1847
Designations
Alternative designations	Miss Mitchell's Comet 1847 VI[3]
Orbital characteristics[4]
Epoch	26 October 1847 (JD 2395960.5)
Observation arc	74 days
Number of observations	77
Perihelion	0.329 au
Eccentricity	1.000172
Inclination	108.13°
Longitude of ascending node	192.967°
Argument of periapsis	276.609°
Last perihelion	14 November 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.^[5][6]

The comet had a weakly hyperbolic orbit solution while inside the planetary region of the Solar System.^[4] An orbit solution when the comet is outside of the planetary region shows that the comet is bound to the Sun.