Comets

Comets

A comet is a solid body orbiting the sun typically composed of rock, dust, or ice.

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Wirtanen comet

Astronomy; Comets

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 ...

Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková comet

Astronomy; Comets

Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková is a short-period comet discovered by Minoru Honda December 3, 1948. The comet is named after Minoru Honda, Antonín Mrkos, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková. The comet is on a ...

Wolf–Harrington is a periodic comet discovered on December 22, 1924, by Max Wolf in Heidelberg, Germany. During the 1997 apparition the comet reached an apparent magnitude a little bit brighter than ...

Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák comet

Astronomy; Comets

Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák is a periodic comet in the Solar System. Discovered by Horace Parnell Tuttle on May 3, 1858, and re-discovered independently by Michel Giacobini and Ľubor Kresák in 1907 and ...

Oterma comet

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Oterma is a periodic comet in our solar system. It has a centaur like orbit with a perihelion greater than Jupiter and a semi-major axis less than Neptune. 39P/Oterma underwent a temporary satellite ...

Stephan–Oterma comet

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Stephan–Oterma (also known as Comet Stephan–Oterma) is a periodic comet discovered in January 1867, by Jerome Coggia at Marseilles Observatory, France.