Comets

Comets

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

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Longmore comet

Astronomy; Comets

Longmore 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 ...

Clark comet

Astronomy; Comets

Clark is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Giclas

Astronomy; Comets

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