Comets

Comets

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

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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.

Van Biesbroeck (comet)

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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

Gunn comet

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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.

Slaughter–Burnham comet

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

Comet Ikeya–Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a long-period comet discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki. First observed as a faint telescopic object on ...

Comet Humason

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Comet Humason, formally designated C/1961 R1 (a.k.a. 1962 VIII and 1961e), was a non-periodic comet discovered by Milton L. Humason on September 1, 1961. Its perihelion was well beyond the orbit of ...

Comet Hale–Bopp

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Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) was perhaps the most widely observed comet of the 20th century, and one of the brightest seen for many decades. It was visible to the naked eye for a ...