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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 ...
Pages in category "Non-periodic comets" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. C/574 G1;
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 ...
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun.Dubbed the Great Comet of 2025, it is currently the brightest comet of 2025, [6] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [5]
C/1988 A1 (Liller) is a non-periodic comet discovered on 11 January 1988 by William Liller. [1] The comet is part of a family of comets, known as the Liller family, which also includes the comets C/1996 Q1 (Tabur) , C/2015 F3 (SWAN) , C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS) , and C/2023 V5 (Leonard) .
For instance, the unnumbered periodic comet P/2011 NO1 (Elenin) and the non-periodic comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) are notated with their provisional systematic designation followed by their name in parentheses; however, the numbered periodic comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is given a permanent designation of its numbered prefix ("67P/") followed ...
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C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud discovered by LINEAR on 15 January 2001. The nucleus of comet split in multiple fragments during its perihelion passage. [ 4 ] The comet brightened to an apparent magnitude of about 3.