Comets

Comets

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

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Van Biesbroeck (comet)

Astronomy; Comets

Van Biesbroeck is a periodic comet in our solar system. This comet and 42P/Neujmin are fragments of a parent comet that split in March 1845

Comet Arend

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Comet Arend or 50P/Arend is a periodic comet in our solar system which was discovered on October 4, 1951. It was discovered by astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend at the Royal Observatory of ...

Perrine–Mrkos is a periodic comet in the solar system, originally discovered by the American-Argentine astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine (Lick Observatory, California, USA) on December 9, 1896. For ...

Holmes (comet)

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Comet Holmes (official designation: 17P/Holmes) is a periodic comet in the Solar System, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892. Although normally a very faint ...

Brooks 2 (comet)

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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 ...

Finlay (comet)

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Comet Finlay is a periodic comet in the solar system discovered by William Henry Finlay (Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) on September 26, 1886. It will next come to perihelion ...

Wolf (comet)

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Wolf is a periodic comet in our solar system. Max Wolf (Heidelberg, Germany) discovered the comet on September 17, 1884. It was later discovered, but not credited to, Ralph Copeland (Dun Echt ...