Comets

Comets

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

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Klemola's Come

Astronomy; Comets

Klemola or Klemola's Comet is a periodic comet, which belongs to Jupiter's comet family, that was discovered in 1965 by American astronomer Arnold Klemola in Argentinian Yale-Columbia Southern ...

Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko

Astronomy; Comets

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 ...

Gunn comet

Astronomy; Comets

Gunn is a periodic comet in the solar system. On 04 February 1970 the comet passed 0.015 AU (2,200,000 km; 1,400,000 mi) from Ceres.

Tsuchinshan (comet)

Astronomy; Comets

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 ...

Comet du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte

Astronomy; Comets

Comet 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.

Slaughter–Burnham comet

Astronomy; Comets

Slaughter–Burnham is a periodic comet in the Solar system.

Comet Tempel–Tuttle

Astronomy; Comets

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 ...