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    C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch's Comet, and Newton's Comet, was the first comet discovered by telescope. It was discovered by Gottfried...
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    Comet of 1668 Great Comet of 1680 Great Comet of 1686 Great Comet of 1744 Great Comet of 1769 Great Comet of 1807 Great Comet of 1811 Great Comet of 1819...
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  • System bodies. One of the first comets to have its orbit computed was the sungrazing comet (and Great Comet) of 1680, now designated C/1680 V1. It was observed...
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    monarchy under the rule of Charles. November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope...
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    many comets have more than one name. The simplest system names comets after the year in which they were observed (e.g. the Great Comet of 1680). Later...
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    The Great Comet of 1577 is a non-periodic comet that passed close to Earth with first observation being possible in Peru on November 1 1577. Final observation...
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    "Great Comet of 1680", the "Great Comet of 1882", and the "Great January Comet of 1910". After Edmond Halley demonstrated that the comets of 1531, 1607...
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  • year 1680 in science and technology involved some significant events. 14 November NS – Great Comet of 1680 observed by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered...
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    of gravity and motion. His work on comets was decidedly incomplete. Although he had suspected that two comets that had appeared in succession in 1680...
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  • comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen)...
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    (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field...
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  • predicted the comet's return; thereafter this celestial marvel was known as Halley's Comet. His observations of the great comet of 1680 are mentioned...
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  • had been found to take it extremely close to the Sun was the Great Comet of 1680. This comet was found to have passed just 200,000 kilometres (120,000 mi)...
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    elements of Comet ISON and the Great Comet of 1680 led to speculation that there might be a connection between them. Further observations of ISON, however...
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  • Sacred Theory of the Earth is published in England. Spanish Jesuit astronomer Eusebio Kino publishes his observations of the Great Comet of 1680 in Mexico...
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    1680s (redirect from 1680–1689)
    monarchy under the rule of Charles. November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted by Gottfried Kirch, the first comet discovered by telescope...
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    The Great Comet of 1744, whose official designation is C/1743 X1, and which is also known as Comet de Chéseaux or Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux, was a spectacular...
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    these objects in the future. This list does not include near-parabolic comets of which many are known to be currently more than 100 AU (15 billion km)...
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  • November 14 (redirect from 14th of November)
    Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt. 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope...
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    Zimmerman") in Book 3 of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 (on p. 505) as having observed the Great Comet of 1680. Johann Jacob...
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    times, great comets caused worldwide fear, considered bad omens foreboding disaster and turmoil, for example the 1066 passage of Halley's Comet depicted...
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  • measurement of its long-term orbit. List of comets by type List of Halley-type comets List of hyperbolic comets List of long-period comets List of numbered...
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    Geminiano Montanari (category Academic staff of the University of Bologna)
    Edmond Halley. Montanari's observations of the great comet of 1680 are mentioned twice in the third volume of Newton's Principia. Montanari published...
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    the two comets observed in 1680/81 were in fact one and the same, describing a parabolic path around the Sun. This was the Great Comet of 1680. While others...
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    the great comet of 1668. Together with Marco Antonio Cellio and Giuseppe Pontio, Eschinardi was one of the first to see the great comet of 1680 on 17...
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    astrological prognostications, Roeslin had picked out just the two comets, the Great Comet of 1556 and 1580. Roeslin responded in 1609 that this was indeed...
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    Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (category Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences)
    children. He first published a work concerning his observations on the great comet of 1680, and initially began his work at a private castle-observatory on...
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  • Comet which appear'd in December 1680, 3 volumes (1682). Subtitled: Chiefly tending to explode popular superstitions. An account of the Great Comet of...
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    a great fire in Kyoto. 4 June 1680 (Enpō 8, 8th day of the 5th month): Shōgun Ietsuna dies; and he is succeeded by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. 15 June 1680 (Enpō...
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  • 276P/Vorobjov (category Periodic comets)
    276P/Vorobjov (previously P/2012 T7 (Vorobjov)) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 2012 by Tomáš Vorobjov on three 120-s images taken...
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