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    of near-parabolic comets List of numbered comets List of periodic comets Lists of astronomical objects Comet vintages Bright Comet Chronicles 1994 Resolution...
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  • Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than...
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  • list of comets (bodies that travel in elliptical, parabolic, and sometimes hyperbolic orbits and display a tail behind them) listed by type. Comets are...
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    bodies Lists of comets List of meteor showers Minor planets List of minor planets List of exceptional asteroids List of minor planet moons List of damocloids...
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    These are lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...
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  • 14 Halley-type comets (HTCs), five Chiron-type comets (CTCs), and one long-period comet (153P). 75 bodies are also near-Earth comets (NECs). In addition...
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    called Manx comets. They are still classified as comets, such as C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS). Twenty-seven Manx comets were found from 2013 to 2017. As of November 2021[update]...
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  • Lists of invasive species Lists of Linyphiidae species Lists of astronomical objects Lists of comets Lists of exoplanets Lists of galaxies Lists of geological...
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  • The following is a list of Halley-type comets (HTCs), which are periodic comets with an orbital period between 20 and 200 years, often appearing only...
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  • of the lists of small Solar System bodies and dwarf planets. Lists of comets List of minor planets List of named minor planets (alphabetical) List of...
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  • The following list is of comets with very long orbital periods, defined as between 200 and 1000 years. These comets come from the Kuiper belt and scattered...
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    following tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft. A total of 18 minor planets (asteroids, dwarf planets...
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  • catalogues List of astronomical topics Lists of etymologies List of asteroids List of periodic comets List of non-periodic comets "Asterisms - Napoleon's Hat, Picot...
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  • ending up with the comets fluctuating significantly in their orbital path. These comets probably come from the Oort cloud, a cloud of comets orbiting the Sun...
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    States. Hale had spent many hundreds of hours searching for comets without success, and was tracking known comets from his driveway in New Mexico when...
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    inert lump of rock or rubble, an extinct comet that can resemble an asteroid (see Comets § Fate of comets). This may have occurred in the case of 5D/Brorsen...
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    fragmentations of Jupiter-family comets, rather than to comets and collisions between asteroids in the asteroid belt. At most 10 percent of the dust is attributed...
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  • Periodic Comets Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog (includes a listing of unnumbered periodic comets) Periodic comets on the Planetary Data System Small...
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    eccentricity is otherwise changed. Comets orbiting in this way still originate from the Solar System, however. Typically comets in the Oort Cloud are thought...
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    discovered by Gottfried Kirch and was one of the brightest comets of the seventeenth century. The comet was discovered by Gottfried Kirch, a German astronomer...
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    Hubble image taken on August 8, 2020 Astronomy portal Lists of comets Mace, Mikayla (July 8, 2020). "Comet NEOWISE Sizzles as It Slides by the Sun, Providing...
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    Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have an atmosphere denser than the Earth's...
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    astronomical community. Great comets appear at irregular, unpredictable intervals, on average about once per decade. Although comets are officially named after...
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    arrival from the Oort cloud, a place from where comets with orbital periods of millions of years come. Comets entering the inner Solar System for the first...
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  • City Comets may refer to: Kansas City Comets (1979–1991), a team in the original Major Indoor Soccer League from 1979 to 1991 Kansas City Comets (2001–2005)...
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    three-year drought." One of the comets in the manuscript has four tails and resembles a swastika. In their 1985 book Comet, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan...
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    List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects Lists of comets List of exceptional asteroids Lists of geological features of the Solar System List of craters...
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    studies". Retrieved 28 March 2013. "NASA Selects Missions to Mercury and a Comet's Interior as Next Discovery Flights". Retrieved 28 March 2013. Amos, Jonathan;...
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    possibility of Comet Swift–Tuttle impacting Earth was compared to 433 Eros and about 3000 other kilometer-sized objects of concern. Lists of comets List of interstellar...
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  • was nobody to plot the positions of the comets to a high enough precision to generate any meaningful orbit. Later comets, observed in the 17th century or...
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