Comets

Comets

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

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Comas solàs

Astronomy; Comets

Comas Solà is the name of a periodic comet with a current orbital period of 8.8 years. The comet nucleus is estimated to be 8.4 kilometres in diameter

Helin-Roman-Crockett (comet)

Astronomy; Comets

Helin-Roman-Crockett is a periodic comet in the solar system. It was discovered by Eleanor and Ron Helin on the 5th of January 1989 from images obtained on the 3rd and 4th of that month. It is a ...

Singer Brewster is a periodic comet in our solar system. Its name is unusual: co-discovered comets bear the names of the co-discoverers linked by hyphens (e.g. Shoemaker-Levy 9, Swift-Tuttle, etc.). ...

Comet Wilson–Harrington

Astronomy; Comets

Comet Wilson–Harrington is a periodic comet (formally designated 107P/Wilson–Harrington). Little known about it distinguishes it from other comets, but for the fact that it is also designated an ...

Comet Spitaler

Astronomy; Comets

Comet Spitaler is a periodic comet in the solar system discovered by Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler (Vienna, Austria) on November 17, 1890 whilst attempting to observe Comet Zona (C/1890 V1). Spitaler, ...

Comet Urata-Niijima

Astronomy; Comets

Comet Urata-Niijima is a periodic comet in the solar system discovered by Japanese astronomers Tsuneo Niijima and Takeshi Urata on October 30, 1986 at Ojima, the first orbit was calculated by Brian ...

Wiseman-Skiff (comet)

Astronomy; Comets

Wiseman-Skiff is a periodic comet in our solar system. It was discovered by Jennifer Wiseman in January of 1987 on two photographic plates that had been taken on December 28, 1986, by Brian A. Skiff ...