Comets

Comets

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

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Comet Boethin

Astronomy; Comets

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 ...

Giclas is a periodic comet in the solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 1.8 kilometers in diameter. On 11 June 2033 the comet will pass 0.0387 AU (5,790,000 km; 3,600,000 mi) from the ...

Comet Gehrels'

Astronomy; Comets

Comet 78P/Gehrels' aphelion (furthest distance from the Sun) of 5.4AU is in the zone of control of the giant planet Jupiter and the orbit of the comet is frequently perturbed by Jupiter. On September ...

Comet Wild

Astronomy; Comets

Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2, 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 ...

Longmore comet

Astronomy; Comets

Longmore is a periodic comet in the solar system.

Clark comet

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Clark is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

Comet Taylor

Astronomy; Comets

Comet Taylor, is a periodic comet in the solar system, first discovered by Clement J. Taylor (Cape Town, South Africa) on November 24, 1915. George van Biesbroeck and E. E. Barnard (Yerkes ...