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Herschel–Rigollet (comet)
Herschel–Rigollet is a periodic comet discovered by Caroline Herschel (Slough, United Kingdom) on 1788-12-21. Given that the comet takes 155 years to orbit the Sun, predictions for the next perihelion passage in 2092 vary by about a month.
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