Comet
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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...
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| Comet Halley |
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Celestial Object | 1P/Halley |
Halley's Comet, officially designated 1P/Halley and also referred to as Comet Halley after Edmond Halley, is a comet that can be seen every 75–76 years. It is the most famous of all periodic comets. Although in every century many long-period comets...
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| Comet Holmes | Celestial Object | 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
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| Comet Hale-Bopp |
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Comet Hale-Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) was probably the most widely observed comet of the twentieth century, and one of the brightest seen for many decade. It was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, twice as long as the...
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| Comet Ikeya-Seki |
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Celestial Object | C/1965 S1 |
Comet Ikeya-Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a 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 orbit...
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| Comet Biela |
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Celestial Object | 3D/Biela |
3D/Biela is the official designation for a lost periodic comet discovered in 1826 by Wilhelm von Biela. It is sometimes known as Comet Biela or Biela's Comet.
The comet was sighted in 1772 by Charles Messier and in 1805 by Jean-Louis Pons. However,...
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| Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
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Celestial Object | D/1993 F2 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9, formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of solar system objects. This generated a large amount of coverage in...
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| Comet Encke |
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Celestial Object |
Comet Encke (officially designated 2P/Encke) is a periodic comet, named after Johann Franz Encke, who through laborious study of its orbit and many calculations was able to link multiple observations in 1786 (2P/1786 B1), 1795 (2P/1795 V1), 1805 (2P...
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| 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann |
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Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, was discovered on 15 November 1925 by Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann at the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf, Germany. The comet was discovered photographically, when...
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| 2060 Chiron |
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Celestial Object |
2060 Chiron ( from ) is a planetoid 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 known as centaur, with an orbit...
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| 96P/Machholz | Celestial Object |
Comet 96P/Machholz or 96P/Machholz 1 is a periodic comet discovered on May 12, 1986 by Donald Machholz in Loma Prieta, California. It entered SOHO's field of view in 1996, 2002, and 2007, seen in both LASCO C2 and C3. On April 3, 2007, it again...
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| Comet Kohoutek |
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Celestial Object | C/1973 E1 |
Comet Kohoutek, formally designated C/1973 E1, 1973 XII, and 1973f, was first sighted on March 7, 1973 by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek. It attained perihelion on December 26 that same year.
Kohoutek is a long period comet, with an orbital period...
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| Comet West |
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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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| Comet Hyakutake |
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Celestial Object | C/1996 B2 |
Comet Hyakutake (, formally designated C/1996 B2) is a comet discovered on January 30, 1996, which passed very close to Earth in March of that year. It was dubbed The Great Comet of 1996; its passage near the Earth was one of the closest cometary...
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| Comet McNaught |
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Celestial Object | 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 in over 40 years, and was...
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| Comet Borrelly |
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Celestial Object | 19P/Borrelly |
Comet Borrelly (formally designated 19P/Borrelly) is a periodic comet, which was visited by the space craft Deep Space 1.
The comet was discovered by Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly during a routine search for comets at Marseilles, France on...
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| 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
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Celestial Object | 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the designation of a comet with a current orbital period of 6.6 year. It is the destination of the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft mission, launched on March 2, 2004.
Diameter: 4 km
As preparation for the...
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| 9P/Tempel |
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Celestial Object | 9P/Tempel 1 |
9P/Tempel, also known as Tempel 1 or 9P/Tempel 1, is a periodic comet. It was discovered on April 3, 1867 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel, an astronomer working in Marseille. At the time of discovery, it approached perihelion once every 5.68 years...
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| 81P/Wild |
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Celestial Object |
Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2, is a comet named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild (pronounced Vilt), who discovered it in 1978.
It is believed that for most of its 4.5 billion-year lifetime, Wild 2 had a more distant and circular orbit. In...
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| 109P/Swift-Tuttle | Celestial Object |
Comet Swift-Tuttle (formally designated as 109P/Swift-Tuttle) was independently discovered by Lewis Swift on July 16, 1862 and by Horace Parnell Tuttle on July 19, 1862.
The comet made a return appearance in 1992, when it was rediscovered by...
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| 107P/Wilson-Harrington | Celestial Object |
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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| 133P/Elst-Pizarro | Celestial Object |
Comet Elst-Pizarro is a remarkable body in that it displays characteristics of both asteroid and comet , and is the prototype of main-belt comet. Its orbit keeps it within the asteroid main belt, while it displays a dust tail like a comet while near...
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| 118401 LINEAR | Asteroid |
118401 LINEAR (provisional designation ) is an asteroid and main-belt comet (176P/LINEAR, also known as LINEAR 52) which was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) 1-metre telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico on September 7,...
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| Comet Bennett | Celestial Object | C/1969 Y1 |
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 differet comet, C/1974 V2.
Discovered by John Caister...
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| Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock | Celestial Object | C/1983 H1 |
Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock (C/1983 H1) was a small comet that, in 1983, made the closest approach to the earth (about 5,000,000 km) of any comet in 200 years. During the closest approach the comet appeared as a circular cloud about the size of the full...
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| Comet Kirch (1680) | Celestial Object | C/1680 V1 |
The Great Comet of 1680, formally known as C/1680 V1 or Kirch's Comet, has the distinction of being the first comet discovered by telescope. Discovered by Gottfried Kirch on November 14, 1680, it became one of the brightest comets of the 17th...
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| Great Comet of 1843 |
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Celestial Object | C/1843 D1 | Kreutz Sungrazers |
The Great Comet of 1843 formally designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I, was a comet which became very bright in March 1843 (it is also known as the Great March Comet of 1843). It was discovered on February 5, 1843 and rapidly brightened to become a great...
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| Comet Pereyra | Celestial Object | 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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| Great Comet of 1882 |
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Celestial Object | 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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| Eclipse Comet of 1882 | Celestial Object | 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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