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2. Observational history of comets - Wikipedia

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   The arrows could hit animals or people and were feared when walking at night. Comets were conceived as smoking stars and as bad omens, e.g., announcing the death of a ruler. [9] Ancient Chinese records of comet apparitions have been particularly useful to modern astronomers. They are accurate, extensive, and consistent over three millennia.

3. Historical comet observations in China - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Chinese astrology set great store by celestial omens and comets were an important omen, always disastrous. [20] Under the theory of Wu Xing, comets were thought to signify an imbalance of yin and yang. [21] Chinese emperors employed observers specifically to watch for them. Some important decisions were made as a result.

4. List of periodic comets - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Monument—Turns Out It May ...

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   To help support this theory, the team points to another pillar at the site appearing to picture the Taurid meteor stream lasting 27 days, which was quite possibly the source of the ancient comet ...

6. Watch as a green comet flies by Earth - AOL

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   Watch as a green comet flew past Earth for the first time in some 50,000 years before disappearing from our Solar System. The C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet is so rare that woolly mammoths and saber ...

7. Watch the sky, the 'devil comet' is passing by the earth ...

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   The comet is officially named for the astronomers credited with its first two sightings: Jean-Louis Pons in 1812 and William Robert Brooks in 1883, according to The Sky Live, which provides ...

8. 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 ...

9. New findings show ancient comet likely responsible for glass ...

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   New research finds that the dark silicate glass strewn across a vast swath of the Atacama Desert was created by an exploding comet around 12,000 years ago. (Image/P.H. Schultz, Brown University)