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We present a study of comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) using prediscovery archival data taken from 2013 to 2017. Our measurements show that the comet has been marginally increasing in activity since at least 2013 May (heliocentric distance of $r_{mathrm{H}} = 23.7$ AU pre-perihelion). We estimate the mass-loss rate during the period 2013--2017 as $overline{dot{M}} approx left(2.4 pm 1.1 right) times 10^{2}$ kg s$^{-1}$, which requires a minimum active surface area of $sim$10--10$^2$ km$^{2}$ for sublimation of supervolatiles such as CO and CO$_2$, by assuming a nominal cometary albedo $p_V = 0.04 pm 0.02$. The corresponding lower limit to the nucleus radius is a few kilometers. Our Monte Carlo dust simulations show that dust grains in the coma are $gtrsim0.5$ mm in radius, with ejection speeds from $sim$1--3 m s$^{-1}$, and have been emitted in a protracted manner since 2013, confirming estimates by Jewitt et al. (2017). The current heliocentric orbit is hyperbolic. Our N-body backward dynamical integration of the orbit suggests that the comet is most likely (with a probability of $sim$98%) from the Oort spike. The calculated median reciprocal of the semimajor axis 1 Myr ago was $a_{mathrm{med}}^{-1} = left( 3.61 pm 1.71 right) times 10^{-5}$ AU$^{-1}$ (in a reference system of the solar-system barycentre).
Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) was discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Survey on 2017 May 21 at a distance 16.09 au from the Sun, the second most distant discovery of an active comet. Pre-discovery images in the PS1 archive back to 2014 and additional d
Optical observations of the Oort cloud comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) show that its activity began at large heliocentric distances (up to 35 au), which cannot be explained by either the sublimation or the crystallization of water ice. Supervolatile subl
(Abreviated) Comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS drew attention to its activity already at a time of its discovery in May 2017 when it was about 16 au from the Sun. This Oort spike comet will approach its perihelion in December 2022, and the question about its
Distant long-period comet C/2017 K2 has been outside the planetary region of the solar system for 3 Myr, negating the possibility that heat retained from the previous perihelion could be responsible for its activity. This inbound comet is also too co
We present a multi-wavelength study of comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS). This comet was observed on 23-24 January 2018 with the IRAM 30m telescope, and in January to March 2018 with the Nanc{c}ay radio telescope. Visible spectroscopy was performed in Dece