Miss Mitchell's Comet, formally designated as C/1847 T1, is a non-periodic comet that American astronomer Maria Mitchell discovered in 1847.
[5] The discovery was initially credited to Francesco de Vico.
Vico, observing from Rome, was the first to report the comet's discovery in Europe.
[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.