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The Great January Comet of 1910, named after the date it appeared. Before any systematic naming convention was adopted, comets were named in a variety of ways. Prior to the early 20th century, most comets were simply referred to by the year when they appeared e.g. the "Comet of 1702".
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 ...
Water slide at Toledo Beach, Michigan, 1911 Boy riding a water tube slide at The Colony Park in The Colony, Texas. A water slide (also referred to as a flume, water chute, or hydroslide) is a type of slide designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use at swimming pools or water parks. Water slides differ in their riding method and ...
A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having spectra dominated by Balmer absorption lines of hydrogen. Stars of spectral class A are typically blue-white or white in color, measure between 1.4 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and have surface temperatures of 7,600–10,000 kelvin.
This is a page for amusement park Water rides. Water parks should be placed in Category:Water parks ... Water slide; Slide the City; Snake River Falls; Snowy River ...
A comet tail and coma are visible features of a comet when they are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner Solar System. As a comet approaches the inner Solar System, solar radiation causes the volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus , carrying dust ...
On 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet, some of the resulting water vapour may escape from the nucleus, but 80% of it recondenses in layers beneath the surface. [73] This observation implies that the thin ice-rich layers exposed close to the surface may be a consequence of cometary activity and evolution, and that global layering does not ...
Comet, an 1851 California clipper which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade; Comet, sunk in Lake Superior, USA; Comet (sternwheeler), in operation from 1871 to 1900; PS Comet, a Scottish paddle steamer, operating the first European steamship service (1812) SS Comet, any of several American and British merchant ships