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Halley's Comet, Comet Halley: Orbital characteristics; Epoch: 2449400.5 (17 February 1994) Number of observations: 7,428: Aphelion: 35.0823 AU: Perihelion: 0.585978 AU
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Periodic comets sometimes bear the same name repeatedly (e.g. the nine Shoemaker–Levy comets or the twenty-four NEAT comets); the IAU system distinguishes between them either through the number prefix or by the full designation (e. g. 181P and 192P/Shoemaker–Levy are both "Comet Shoemaker–Levy"). In the literature, an informal numbering ...
Coin showing Caesar's Comet as a star with eight rays, tail upward. Non-periodic comets are seen only once. They are usually on near-parabolic orbits that will not return to the vicinity of the Sun for thousands of years, if ever.
The comet was reported to have a nuclear shadow, a dark lane in the tail, and was marginally visible with naked eye on that day. [10] On 7 January the comet was reported to be of first magnitude, with a tail about 20 arcminutes long. [5] The comet was photographed by cosmonaut Ivan Vagner onboard the International Space Station on 10 January. [11]
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