Comets

Comets

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

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Comets

Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák is a periodic comet in the Solar System. Discovered by Horace Parnell Tuttle on May 3, 1858, and re-discovered independently by Michel Giacobini and Ľubor Kresák in 1907 and ...

Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková comet

Astronomy; Comets

Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková is a short-period comet discovered by Minoru Honda December 3, 1948. The comet is named after Minoru Honda, Antonín Mrkos, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková. The comet is on a ...

Oterma comet

Astronomy; Comets

Oterma is a periodic comet in our solar system. It has a centaur like orbit with a perihelion greater than Jupiter and a semi-major axis less than Neptune. 39P/Oterma underwent a temporary satellite ...

Wolf–Harrington comet

Astronomy; Comets

Wolf–Harrington is a periodic comet discovered on December 22, 1924, by Max Wolf in Heidelberg, Germany. During the 1997 apparition the comet reached an apparent magnitude a little bit brighter than ...

Wirtanen comet

Astronomy; Comets

Wirtanen is a small short-periodic comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years. It was the original target for close investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space ...

Arend–Rigaux (comet)

Astronomy; Comets

Arend–Rigaux is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 8.48 kilometres in diameter with a low albedo of 0.028. On 20 December 2058 the comet will pass 0.0867 AU ...

Johnson (comet)

Astronomy; Comets

Johnson is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 5.7 kilometres in diameter by Lamy, Fernandez, and Weaver. David C. Jewitt and Scott S. Sheppard estimate the ...