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  2. Lists of comets - Wikipedia

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    Periodic comets usually have elongated elliptical orbits, and usually return to the vicinity of the Sun after a number of decades. The official names of non-periodic comets begin with a "C"; the names of periodic comets begin with "P" or a number followed by "P". Comets that have been lost or disappeared have names with a "D". Comets whose ...

  3. List of comets by type - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of comets (bodies that travel in elliptical, parabolic, and sometimes hyperbolic orbits and display a tail behind them) listed by type. Comets are sorted into four categories: periodic 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 (), displayed as either P (periodic), C (non ...

  4. List of periodic comets - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. This comet is making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Here ...

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    The approach of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS has particularly excited astronomers because it is a long-period comet, meaning the comet takes more than 200 years — or 80,000 years in this case ...

  6. Comet - Wikipedia

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    A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma.

  7. 5 of the rarest astronomical events—and when you'll next see them

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    The famous comet last passed by the Earth in 1986 and is projected to return sometime in 2061. ... also known as shooting stars, are space rocks that enter a planet's atmosphere at very high ...

  8. List of numbered comets - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of periodic comets that were numbered by the Minor Planet Center after having been observed on at least two occasions. Their orbital periods vary from 3.2 to 366 years. As of October 2023 [update] there are 471 numbered comets (1P–471P). [ 1 ]

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

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    If you want to catch a glimpse, don't hesitate. It's steadily moving away from the Earth after reaching its closest point on Saturday. If you miss this chance, the comet won't return for 80,000 years.