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Reconstruction of the comet's trajectory indicates that C/1831 A1 must have been bright enough to be seen with the naked eye throughout the southern hemisphere (possibly even brighter than Venus) [6] prior to its perihelion on December 28, 1830. However, no written records of its appearance prior to its discovery have yet been found.
Rider College merged with nearby Westminster Choir College (WCC), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1991–92. On April 13, 1994, the college became Rider University. [9] In 2005 Rider completed its 63,000-square-foot (5,900 m 2) Student Recreation Center (SRC), a 186-bed residence hall, and three-story additions to Ziegler and Hill ...
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet that has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated —usually historical comets), "I" for an interstellar object, or "A" for an object that was either mistakenly ...
Comet Donati–van Arsdale, formally designated as C/1857 V1, is a parabolic comet co-discovered by Giovanni Battista Donati and Robert van Arsdale a few hours apart on 10 November 1857. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was calculated to have a retrograde trajectory around the Sun. [ 1 ] [ 6 ]
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The group is now known as the Kreutz Sungrazers, and has produced some of the brightest comets ever seen, including X/1106 C1 and Comet Ikeya–Seki. The source of the group may have been the Great Comet of 371 BC. [1] [2] Kreutz was born in Siegen in 1854, and obtained his PhD at the University of Bonn in 1880 on the orbit of comet C/1861 J1. [3]
60P/Tsuchinshan, also known as Tsuchinshan 2, is a periodic comet in the Solar System with an orbital period of 6.79 years. [5] Tsuchinshan is the Wade-Giles transliteration corresponding to the pinyin Zǐjīn Shān 紫金山, which is Mandarin Chinese for "Purple Mountain".
The Great Comet of 1760, also known as C/1760 A1 by its modern nomenclature, was first seen on 7 January 1760 by Abbe Chevalier at Lisbon. [4] Charles Messier also spotted the comet on 8 January 1760 in Paris, by the sword of Orion. The comet was his third discovery and the comet was the 51st to have a calculated orbit.