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The Comet Type falls within the Astronomy Domain. The Comet Type is a Compound Value Type and includes all the properties, though some are not meaningful for the Comet Type, of the Celestial Object Type. Five comets, as of November 2007, are also cross-listed as asteroids and therefore include the...
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| x Comet Halley |
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1P/Halley | Feb 9, 1986 |
Halley's Comet or Comet Halley ( /ˈhæli/ or /ˈheɪli/; officially designated 1P/Halley) is the best-known of the short-period comets, and is visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years. Halley is the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the...
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| x Comet Holmes | 17P/Holmes |
17P/Holmes is a periodic comet in our solar system, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892 . In only 42 hours in October 2007, the comet brightened from a magnitude
of about 17 to about 2.8. This unusually...
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| x Comet Hale-Bopp |
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C/1995 O1 | Apr 1, 1997 |
Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) was perhaps the most widely observed comet of the 20th century, and one of the brightest seen for many decades. It was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, twice as long as the previous...
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| x Comet Ikeya-Seki |
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C/1965 S1 |
Comet Ikeya–Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a long-period comet discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki. First observed as a faint telescopic object on September 18, 1965, the first calculations of its...
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| x Comet Biela |
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3D/Biela |
Biela's Comet or Comet Biela (official designation: 3D/Biela) was a periodic comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and finally identified as periodic in 1826 by Wilhelm von Biela. It was subsequently observed to split in two and has...
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| x Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
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D/1993 F2 |
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. This generated a large...
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| x Comet Encke |
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2P/Encke |
Comet Encke or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke) is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every three years — the shortest period of any known comet. It was first recorded by Pierre Méchain in 1786, but it was not...
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| x 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann |
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29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann |
Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann–Wachmann 1, was discovered on November 15, 1927, by Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann at the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf, Germany. It was discovered photographically, when the...
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| x 2060 Chiron |
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95P/Chiron |
2060 Chiron ( /ˈkaɪrən/ KY-rən; Greek: Χείρων) is a minor planet in the outer Solar System. Discovered in 1977 by Charles T. Kowal (precovery images have been found as far back as 1895), it was the first-known member of a new class of objects now...
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| x 96P/Machholz |
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96P/Machholz |
Comet 96P/Machholz or 96P/Machholz 1 is a short-period comet discovered on May 12, 1986 by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz on Loma Prieta peak, in central California using 130 millimetres (5.1 in) binoculars. On June 6, 1986, comet 96P/Machholz...
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| x Comet Kohoutek |
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C/1973 E1 |
Comet Kohoutek, formally designated C/1973 E1, 1973 XII, and 1973f, was first sighted on 7 March 1973 by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek. It attained perihelion on 28 December that same year.
Comet Kohoutek is a long-period comet; its previous...
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| x Comet West |
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C/1975 V1-A |
Comet West formally designated C/1975 V1, 1976 VI, and 1975n, was a spectacular comet, sometimes considered to qualify for the status of "great comet".
It was discovered photographically by Richard M. West, of the European Southern Observatory, on...
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| x Comet Hyakutake |
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C/1996 B2 |
Comet Hyakutake (Japanese pronunciation: [çʲakɯ̥take], formally designated C/1996 B2) is a comet, discovered on 31 January 1996, that passed very close to Earth in March of that year. It was dubbed The Great Comet of 1996; its passage near the Earth...
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| x Comet McNaught |
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C/2006 P1 |
Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on August 7, 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught. It was the brightest comet for over 40 years, and...
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| x Comet Borrelly |
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19P/Borrelly |
Comet Borrelly or Borrelly's Comet (official designation: 19P/Borrelly) is a periodic comet, which was visited by the spacecraft Deep Space 1 in 2001.
The comet was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly during a routine search for comets at Marseilles,...
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| x 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
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67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko, officially designated 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, is a comet with a current orbital period of 6.45 years. It will next come to perihelion on 13 August 2015. It is the destination of the European Space Agency's Rosetta...
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| x 9P/Tempel |
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9P/Tempel 1 |
Tempel 1 (official designation: 9P/Tempel), is a periodic comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It currently completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed a...
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| x 81P/Wild |
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81P/Wild |
Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2 ( /ˈvɪlt/ VILT), is a comet named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it in 1978 using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald.
For most of its 4.5 billion-year lifetime, Wild 2 probably had a more...
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| x 109P/Swift-Tuttle | 109P/Swift–Tuttle |
Comet Swift–Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift–Tuttle) is a comet that was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on July 16, 1862 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on July 19, 1862. It has a well determined orbit and has a comet nucleus 26 km in...
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| x 107P/Wilson-Harrington | 107P/Wilson–Harrington |
Comet Wilson–Harrington is a periodic comet (formally designated 107P/Wilson–Harrington).
Little known about it distinguishes it from other comets, but for the fact that it is also designated an asteroid, 4015 Wilson–Harrington (which, incidentally,...
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| x 133P/Elst-Pizarro | 133P/Elst-Pizarro |
Comet Elst–Pizarro is a body that displays characteristics of both asteroids and comets, and is the prototype of main-belt comets. Its orbit keeps it within the asteroid belt, yet it displayed a dust tail like a comet while near perihelion in 1996,...
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| x 118401 LINEAR | 176P/LINEAR |
118401 LINEAR (provisional designation 1999 RE70) is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR) which was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7, 1999. (118401)...
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| x Comet Bennett | C/1969 Y1 | Mar 20, 1970 |
Comet Bennett, formally known as C/1969 Y1 (old style 1970 II and 1969i), was one of two brilliant comets to grace the 1970s, along with Comet West. The name is also borne by an altogether different comet, C/1974 V2.
Discovered by John Caister...
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| x Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock |
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C/1983 H1 |
Comet IRAS–Araki–Alcock (formal designation C/1983 H1, formerly 1983 VII) is a small comet that, in 1983, made the closest approach to the earth (about 5,000,000 km) of any comet in 200 years; only Lexell's Comet, in 1770, and 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, in...
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| x Comet Kirch (1680) |
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C/1680 V1 | Nov 14, 1680 |
C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch's Comet, and Newton's Comet, has the distinction of being the first comet discovered by telescope. Discovered by Gottfried Kirch on 14 November 1680, New Style, it became one of the brightest...
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| x Great Comet of 1843 |
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C/1843 D1 | Kreutz Sungrazers |
The Great Comet of 1843 formally designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I, was a long-period comet which became very bright in March 1843 (it is also known as the Great March Comet). It was discovered on February 5, 1843 and rapidly brightened to become a...
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| x Comet Pereyra | C/1963 R1 |
Comet Pereyra (formal designations: C/1963 R1, 1963 V, and 1963e) was a bright comet which appeared in 1963. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a group of comets which pass extremely close to the Sun.
The comet was first seen on 14 September...
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| x Great Comet of 1882 |
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C/1882 R1 |
The Great Comet of 1882 formally designated C/1882 R1, 1882 II, and 1882b, was a comet which became very bright in September 1882. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of comets which pass within 1 R☉ of the Sun's photosphere at...
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| x Eclipse Comet of 1882 | X/1882 K1 | Kreutz Sungrazers |
The Eclipse Comet of 1882 (modern formal designation: X/1882 K1) was a comet which was discovered by observers in Egypt during the solar eclipse of 1882. Its appearance was a complete surprise, and the sighting of it during the eclipse was the only...
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| x Comet Toit-Neujmin-Delporte | 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte |
57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte is the designation of a periodic comet. In 2002 it was discovered to have broken up into at least 19 fragments.
The comet has many co-discoverers and a complicated discovery history due to unreliable communications...
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| x Great Comet of 1106 | X/1106 C1 | Kreutz Sungrazers |
X/1106 C1, also known as the Great Comet of 1106, was a Great Comet that appeared on February 2, 1106, and was observed across the world from the beginning of February through to mid-March. It was recorded by astronomers in Wales, England, Japan,...
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| x SOHO-620 | C/2003 K12 | Kreutz Sungrazers | |||
| x Comet Ikeya-Zhang | C/2002 C1 |
Comet Ikeya-Zhang (Chinese, Japanese: 池谷-張彗星, officially designated 153P/Ikeya–Zhang) is a comet discovered independently by two astronomers from Japan and China in 2002.
On February 1, 2002, Chinese astronomer Zhang Daqing from Kaifeng discovered a...
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| x Great Daylight Comet of 1910 |
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C/1910 A1 | Jan 17, 1910 |
The Great January Comet of 1910, formally designated C/1910 A1 and often referred to as the Daylight Comet appeared in January 1910. It was already visible to the naked eye when it was first noticed, and many people independently "discovered" the...
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| x Comet Skjellerup-Maristany | C/1927 X1 |
Comet Skjellerup-Maristany, formally designated C/1927 X1, 1927 IX, and 1927k, was a long-period comet which became very bright in 1927. This great comet was observable to the naked eye for about 32 days. It was independently discovered by amateur...
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| x Comet White-Ortiz-Bolelli |
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C/1970 K1 | Kreutz Sungrazers |
Comet White–Ortiz–Bolelli (formal designations: C/1970 K1, 1970 VI, and 1970f) was a bright comet which appeared in 1970. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of comets which resulted from the break-up of a large parent comet several...
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| x 8P/Tuttle | 8P/Tuttle |
8P/Tuttle (also known as Tuttle's Comet or Comet Tuttle) is a periodic comet in our solar system. Perihelion was late January 2008, and as of February was visible telescopically to Southern Hemisphere observers in the constellation Eridanus. On...
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| x 4P/Faye | 4P/Faye |
4P/Faye (also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye) is a periodic comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris. It will next come to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on May 29, 2014, when it is expected to...
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| x 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT | 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT |
54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT is a periodic comet in the solar system first discovered by Father Francesco de Vico (Rome, Italy) on August 23, 1844. It has become a lost comet several times after its discovery. The comet makes many close approaches to...
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| x C/1861 J1 |
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C/1861 J1 |
The Great Comet of 1861 formally designated C/1861 J1 and 1861 II, is a long-period comet that was visible to the naked eye for approximately 3 months. It was categorized as a Great Comet, one of eight in the 19th century.
It was discovered by John...
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| x C/1811 F1 |
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C/1811 F1 |
The Great Comet of 1811, formally designated C/1811 F1, is a comet that was visible to the naked eye for around 260 days, a record it held until the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. In October 1811, at its brightest, it displayed an apparent...
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| x 55P/Tempel-Tuttle | 55P/Tempel–Tuttle |
55P/Tempel–Tuttle (commonly known as Comet Tempel–Tuttle) is a comet that was independently discovered by Ernst Tempel on December 19, 1865 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on January 6, 1866.
It is the parent body of the Leonid meteor shower. In 1699,...
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| x Comet Donati |
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C/1858 L1 | 1858 |
Comet Donati, or Donati's Comet, formally designated C/1858 L1 and 1858 VI, is a long-period comet named after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati who first observed it on June 2, 1858. After the Great Comet of 1811, it was the most...
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| x 37P/Forbes | 37P/Forbes |
37P/Forbes is a periodic comet in our solar system.
The comet nucleus is estimated to be 1.9 kilometers in diameter.
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| x 60P/Tsuchinshan | 60P/Tsuchinshan |
60P/Tsuchinshan, also known as Tsuchinshan 2, is a periodic comet in the solar system. The comet is expected to peak at about apparent magnitude 16.3 in 2012.
On 29 December 2077 the comet will pass 0.068 AU (10,200,000 km; 6,300,000 mi) from Mars.
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| x 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu | 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu |
117P/Helin-Roman-Alu, also known as Helin-Roman-Alu 1, is a periodic comet in the solar system.
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| x 128P/Shoemaker-Holt | 128P/Shoemaker-Holt |
128P/Shoemaker-Holt, also known as Shoemaker-Holt 1, is a periodic comet in the solar system.
The nucleus was split into two pieces during the 1997 apparition.
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| x 160P/LINEAR | 160P/LINEAR |
160P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the solar system. The comet will come to perihelion on 18 September 2012, and is expected to reach about apparent magnitude 16.5.
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| x 172P/Yeung | 172P/Yeung |
172P/Yeung is a periodic comet in the solar system.
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| x 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR | 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR |
11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet in the solar system.
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (Marseille) originally discovered the comet on November 27, 1869, it was later observed by Lewis Swift (Warner Observatory) on October 11, 1880 and...
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| x 46P/Wirtanen |
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46P/Wirtanen |
46P/Wirtanen is a small short-periodic comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years. It was the original target for close investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space Agency. It belongs to the Jupiter family of comets,...
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| x 32P/Comas Solá | 32P/Comas Solà |
32P/Comas Solà is the name of a periodic comet with a current orbital period of 8.8 years.
The comet nucleus is estimated to be 8.4 kilometers in diameter.
32P/Comas Solà was discovered November 5, 1926 by Josep Comas Solà. As part of his work on...
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| x 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup | 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup |
Comet Grigg–Skjellerup (formally designated 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup) is a periodic comet.
Discovered in 1902 by John Grigg of New Zealand, and rediscovered in its next appearance in 1922 by John Francis Skjellerup, an Australian then living and working...
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| x 16P/Brooks | 16P/Brooks |
16P/Brooks, also known as Brooks 2, is a periodic comet discovered by William Robert Brooks on July 7, 1889, but failed to note any motion. He was able to confirm the discovery the next morning, having seen that the comet had moved north. On August...
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| x 87P/Bus | 87P/Bus |
Comet 87P/Bus was discovered by Schelte J. Bus in 1981 on a plate taken with the 1.2m UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, Australia. The discovery was announced in IAU Circular 3578 on March 4, 1981. The comet's orbit takes it around the Sun...
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| x 21P/Giacobini-Zinner |
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21P/Giacobini–Zinner |
Comet Giacobini–Zinner (official designation: 21P/Giacobini–Zinner) is a periodic comet in our solar system.
It was discovered by Michel Giacobini from (Nice, France), who observed the comet in the constellation of Aquarius on December 20, 1900. It...
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| x Comet Machholz | C/2004 Q2 |
Comet Machholz, formally designated C/2004 Q2, is a long-period comet discovered by Donald Machholz on August 27, 2004.
It reached naked eye brightness in January 2005. Unusual for such a relatively bright comet, its perihelion was farther from the...
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| x Comet Arend-Roland |
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C/1956 R1 |
Comet Arend–Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956, by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland on photographic plates. As the eighth comet found in 1956, it was named Arend–Roland 1956h after its discoverers. Because it was the third...
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| x Comet Morehouse |
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C/1908 R1 |
Comet Morehouse (modern formal designation: C/1908 R1) was a bright, non-periodic comet discovered by US astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse and first observed on September 1, 1908. It was unusual in the rapid variations seen in the structure of its...
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| x 85P/Boethin |
Comet Boethin (officially 85P/Boethin) is a periodic comet discovered in 1975 by Reverend Leo Boethin. It appeared again in 1986 January as expected. Although the comet was next expected at perihelion on 1997 April, no observations were reported.
It...
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