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  2. C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein) - Wikipedia

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    Even at its minimum estimated diameter, C/2014 UN 271 is the largest Oort cloud comet discovered, being more than 50 times larger than a typical comet which is less than 2 km (1.2 mi) in diameter. The previous largest known long-period comet was C/2002 VQ 94 (LINEAR) with a diameter of 96 km (60 mi), [ 35 ] followed by Comet Hale–Bopp at 74 ...

  3. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) - Wikipedia

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    The systematic search performed by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System detected an asteroidal object with an estimated magnitude of 18.1 in images taken on 22 February 2023 using the 0.5 m f/2 Schmidt reflector at the Sutherland Observatory in South Africa, when the comet was about 7.3 AU (1.09 billion km; 680 million mi) from the ...

  4. Fascinating recent discoveries about comets and meteors in ...

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    As space objects go, comets and meteors are not very big. While a planet like Earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter and a star like our Sun is about 865,000 miles across, the largest asteroid ...

  5. Photos show once-in-a-lifetime comet over Ohio. There's still ...

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    A rare comet is still glowing over Ohio. Here's how to see it before it's gone, and won't return for 80,000 years. ... part of USA TODAY Network. ... Social media users share images of Comet C ...

  6. NASA spots ‘record-breaking’ comet hurtling toward ... - AOL

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    The space agency said it’s the biggest comet nucleus ever recorded with an estimated diameter of 80 miles and overall bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

  7. C/1729 P1 (Sarabat) - Wikipedia

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    The comet was discovered in the constellation of Equuleus by Father Nicolas Sarabat, a professor of mathematics, at Nîmes in the early morning of August 1, 1729. [7] At the time of discovery the comet was making its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 3.1 AU (460 million km; 290 million mi) and had a solar elongation of 155 degrees.

  8. C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) - Wikipedia

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    Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura discovered the comet in images he obtained using a 200-mm f/3 telephoto lens mounted on a Canon EOS 6D on 12 August 2023, when the comet was 1.0 AU from the Sun. He also found it in images he exposed the previous night. [1] The comet upon discovery was located in the dawn sky and moving closer to the ...

  9. Rare comet may be visible to the naked eye. Here's ... - AOL

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    On Wednesday, the comet made its closest approach to our sun and on Saturday, October 12 at 11:39 a.m. it will be just 43,911,824 miles from Earth (its closest pass).