What's going on with A/2017 U1

2017 Oct 25 - Reclassified

A/2017 U1 was originally classified as a comet (C/2017 U1 PanSTARRS), but Karen Meech reports that very deep images obtained at the VLT showed no evidence of a coma (MPEC 2017-U182). Thus, the object has been reclassified as A/2017 U1