308P/Lagerkvist–Carsenty

Comet Lagerkvist–Carsenty is a distant Jupiter-family comet with a 17-year orbit around the Sun. It was co-discovered by two European astronomers, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist and Uri Carsenty.

== Observational history == The comet was discovered as an asteroid-like object from photographic plates taken during a joint astronomical survey between the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory and the European Southern Observatory on the night of 5 October 1997. At the time, the comet formerly known as P/1997 T3, was a 19th-magnitude object within the constellation Pisces. It was initially thought to be a Jupiter trojan with no apparent activity, until further orbital calculations had shown it was not gravitationally bound to Jupiter itself, but in a centaur-like orbit as far away as Saturn's distance to the Sun.