Comets

Comets

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

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Comet Borrelly

Astronomy; Comets

Comet Borrelly or Borrelly's Comet (official designation: 19P/Borrelly) is a periodic comet, which was visited by the spacecraft Deep Space 1 in 2001.

Whipple comet

Astronomy; Comets

Whipple is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 4.5 kilometres in diameter.

Forbes comet

Astronomy; Comets

Forbes is a periodic comet in our solar system. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 1.9 kilometres in diameter

Also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye is a periodic comet discovered in November, 1843, by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris. It will next come to perihelion (closest approach to the ...

Comet Brorsen

Astronomy; Comets

Also known as Brorsen's Comet or Comet Brorsen is a comet discovered February 26, 1846, by the Danish astronomer Theodor Brorsen. The perihelion of 5D/Brorsen was February 25, just a day before its ...

Tempel–Swift–LINEAR

Astronomy; Comets

Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet in the solar system. Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (Marseille) originally discovered the comet on November 27, 1869, it was later observed by Lewis Swift ...

Comet Tuttle

Astronomy; Comets

Tuttle (also known as Tuttle's Comet or Comet Tuttle) is a periodic comet in our solar system. Perihelion was late January 2008, and as of February was visible telescopically to Southern Hemisphere ...