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268 relations: Akimasa Nakamura, Alain Maury, Albert F. A. L. Jones, Alexander F. I. Forbes, Alexandre Schaumasse, Alexis Bouvard, All Sky Automated Survey, All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae, Allan Sandage, Alphonse Borrelly, Andrea Boattini, Angelo Secchi, Antonín Bečvář, Antonín Mrkos, Apsis, Aristotle, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, Astronomical unit, August Kopff, Ľubor Kresák, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, Brian A. Skiff, Brian P. Roman, C/1652 Y1, C/1702 H1, C/1760 A1, C/1847 T1, C/1911 S3, C/1980 E1 (Bowell), C/1989 W1 (Aarseth–Brewington), C/1989 X1 (Austin), C/1990 K1 (Levy), C/1999 S4 (LINEAR), C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones), C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR), C/2006 M4 (SWAN), C/2007 F1 (LONEOS), C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring), C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), C/2009 R1 (McNaught), C/2010 X1 (Elenin), C/2011 J2 (LINEAR), C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS), C/2012 E2 (SWAN), C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS), C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), C/2013 US10 (Catalina), C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS), C/2015 G2 (MASTER), C/2015 V2 (Johnson), ... Expand index (218 more) »
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Akimasa Nakamura
(born 1961) is a Japanese astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Akimasa Nakamura
Alain Maury
Alain J. Maury (born 1958) is a French astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Alain Maury
Albert F. A. L. Jones
Albert Francis Arthur Lofley Jones (9 August 1920 – 11 September 2013) was a New Zealand amateur astronomer, and a prolific variable star and comet observer, a member of the Variable Star Section and the Comet Section of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Albert F. A. L. Jones
Alexander F. I. Forbes
Alexander Forbes Irvine Forbes (13 April 1871 – 15 May 1959) was a South African astronomer, architect and artist, best known for his discovery of periodic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Alexander F. I. Forbes
Alexandre Schaumasse
Alexandre Schaumasse (1882–1958) was a French astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Alexandre Schaumasse
Alexis Bouvard
Alexis Bouvard (27 June 1767 – 7 June 1843) was a French astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Alexis Bouvard
All Sky Automated Survey
The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) is a Polish project implemented on 7 April 1997 to do photometric monitoring of approximately 20 million stars brighter than 14 magnitude all over the sky.
See List of hyperbolic comets and All Sky Automated Survey
All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae
The All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) is an automated program to search for new supernovae and other astronomical transients, headed by astronomers from the Ohio State University, including Christopher Kochanek and Krzysztof Stanek.
See List of hyperbolic comets and All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae
Allan Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Allan Sandage
Alphonse Borrelly
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (December 8, 1842 – February 28, 1926) was a French astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Alphonse Borrelly
Andrea Boattini
Andrea Boattini (born 16 September 1969) is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Andrea Boattini
Angelo Secchi
Angelo Secchi (28 June 1818 – 26 February 1878) was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Angelo Secchi
Antonín Bečvář
Antonín Bečvář (10 June 1901 – 10 January 1965) was a Czech astronomer who was active in Slovakia.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Antonín Bečvář
Antonín Mrkos
Antonín Mrkos (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czech astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Antonín Mrkos
Apsis
An apsis is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Apsis
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Aristotle
Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is a robotic astronomical survey and early warning system optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects a few weeks to days before they impact Earth.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Astronomical unit
August Kopff
August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer and discoverer of several comets and asteroids.
See List of hyperbolic comets and August Kopff
Ľubor Kresák
Ľubor Kresák (23 August 1927 in Topoľčany – 20 January 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovak astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Ľubor Kresák
Ľudmila Pajdušáková
Ľudmila Pajdušáková (29 June 1916 – 6 October 1979) was a Slovak astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Ľudmila Pajdušáková
Brian A. Skiff
Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering numerous asteroids and a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman–Skiff (with Jennifer Wiseman) and 140P/Bowell–Skiff (with Edward Bowell).
See List of hyperbolic comets and Brian A. Skiff
Brian P. Roman
Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Brian P. Roman
C/1652 Y1
C/1652 Y1 was a naked-eye comet observed, among others, by Jan van Riebeeck.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1652 Y1
C/1702 H1
C/1702 H1 (also known as "the comet of 1702") is a comet discovered by Maria Margaretha Kirch in Germany on April 20, 1702.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1702 H1
C/1760 A1
The Great Comet of 1760 (C/1760 A1) was first seen on 7 January 1760 by Abbe Chevalier at Lisbon.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1760 A1
C/1847 T1
Miss Mitchell's Comet (formally designated C/1847 T1) is a non-periodic comet that American astronomer Maria Mitchell discovered in 1847.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1847 T1
C/1911 S3
Comet Beljawsky is also known as 1911 IV and 1911g according to the naming conventions at the time.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1911 S3
C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
C/1980 E1 is a non-periodic comet discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell on 11 February 1980 and which came closest to the Sun (perihelion) in March 1982. List of hyperbolic comets and C/1980 E1 (Bowell) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
C/1989 W1 (Aarseth–Brewington)
C/1989 W1 (Aarseth–Brewington) is a non-periodic comet discovered on 16 November 1989 independently by Knut Aarseth and Howard Brewington. List of hyperbolic comets and C/1989 W1 (Aarseth–Brewington) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1989 W1 (Aarseth–Brewington)
C/1989 X1 (Austin)
C/1989 X1 (Austin) (old-style designations 1990 V and 1989c1) was a comet discovered by New Zealand amateur Rodney R. D. Austin on December 6, 1989. List of hyperbolic comets and C/1989 X1 (Austin) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1989 X1 (Austin)
C/1990 K1 (Levy)
C/1990 K1 (Levy) is a non-periodic comet discovered by David H. Levy on 20 May 1990. List of hyperbolic comets and C/1990 K1 (Levy) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1990 K1 (Levy)
C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) was a long-period comet discovered on September 27, 1999, by LINEAR. List of hyperbolic comets and C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones)
C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud discovered on November 18, 2000, by Syogo Utsunomiya and Albert F. A. L. Jones.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones)
C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) is a non-periodic comet discovered by LINEAR on 16 December 2000. List of hyperbolic comets and C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN) is a non-periodic comet discovered in late June 2006 by Robert D. Matson of Irvine, California and Michael Mattiazzo of Adelaide, South Australia in publicly available images of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) is a hyperbolic comet discovered on March 19, 2007 as part as the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search (LONEOS). List of hyperbolic comets and C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring), is an Oort cloud comet that was discovered by Donna Burton in 2007 at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. List of hyperbolic comets and C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
C/2008 T2 (Cardinal)
C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), is a non-periodic comet.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2008 T2 (Cardinal)
C/2009 R1 (McNaught)
C/2009 R1 (McNaught), one of more than fifty comets known as Comet McNaught, is a non-periodic comet discovered by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught on September 9, 2009, using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2009 R1 (McNaught)
C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is an Oort cloud comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
C/2011 J2 (LINEAR)
C/2011 J2 (LINEAR) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 4 May 2011 by LINEAR at an apparent magnitude of 19.7 using a Reflecting telescope.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2011 J2 (LINEAR)
C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)
C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS), also known as Comet PANSTARRS, is a non-periodic comet discovered in June 2011 that became visible to the naked eye when it was near perihelion in March 2013.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)
C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
Comet C/2012 E2 (SWAN) was a Kreutz group sungrazing comet discovered by Vladimir Bezugly in publicly available images taken by the SWAN instrument (Solar Wind ANisotropies) on board the SOHO spacecraft.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS)
C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS) is a retrograde Oort cloud comet discovered at magnitude 19.7, 8.7 AU from the Sun on 17 May 2012 using the Pan-STARRS telescope located near the summit of Haleakalā, on the island of Maui in Hawaii (U.S.). The comet started 2014 as a Northern Hemisphere object.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS)
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 3 January 2013 by Robert H. McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
(Catalina) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 31 October 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey at an apparent magnitude of 19 using a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)
C/ (PanSTARRS) is a comet and inner Oort cloud object.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)
C/2015 G2 (MASTER)
C/2015 G2 (MASTER) is a comet discovered April 7, 2015 by MASTER, the Mobile Astronomical System of the Telescope-Robots at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2015 G2 (MASTER)
C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
C/2015 V2 (Johnson) is a hyperbolic comet discovered on 3 November 2015 by Jess Johnson (Catalina Sky Survey) at an apparent magnitude of 17.1 using a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE)
(NEOWISE) is a hyperbolic comet discovered 21 October 2016 by NEOWISE, the asteroid-and-comet-hunting portion of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE)
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet with an inbound hyperbolic orbit, discovered in May 2017 at a distance beyond the orbit of Saturn when it was from the Sun.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
C/2017 T1 (Heinze)
C/2017 T1 (Heinze) is a near parabolic comet that passed closest to Earth on January 4, 2018, at a distance of 0.22 AU.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2017 T1 (Heinze)
C/2017 U7 (PanSTARRS)
C/2017 U7 (PanSTARRS) is a hyperbolic comet (previously classified as A/2017 U7, a hyperbolic asteroid), first observed on 29 October 2017 by astronomers of the Pan-STARRS facility at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, United States when the object was from the Sun. List of hyperbolic comets and C/2017 U7 (PanSTARRS) are hyperbolic comets.
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C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) is a hyperbolic comet (previously classified as A/2018 C2, a hyperbolic asteroid). List of hyperbolic comets and C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
C/2018 F4 (PanSTARRS)
C/2018 F4 (PanSTARRS) is a hyperbolic comet (previously classified as A/2018 F4, a hyperbolic asteroid). List of hyperbolic comets and C/2018 F4 (PanSTARRS) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2018 F4 (PanSTARRS)
C/2018 V1 (Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto)
Comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto) is a minor body that follows a slightly hyperbolic orbit (eccentricity > 1, 16.4-sigma).
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2018 V1 (Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto)
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) (or Comet ATLAS) was a comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered by the ATLAS survey on December 28, 2019.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
C/2020 F5 (MASTER)
C/2020 F5 (MASTER) is a long period comet discovered on 28 March 2020, by the MASTER auto-detection system near San Juan, Argentina.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2020 F5 (MASTER)
C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was a long period comet that was discovered by G. J. Leonard at the Mount Lemmon Observatory on 3 January 2021 (a year before perihelion) when the comet was from the Sun. List of hyperbolic comets and C/2021 A1 (Leonard) are hyperbolic comets.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
C/2021 T4 (Lemmon)
C/2021 T4 (Lemmon) is an inbound long period comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Observatory on 7 October 2021.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2021 T4 (Lemmon)
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. List of hyperbolic comets and C/2022 E3 (ZTF) are hyperbolic comets.
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C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023.
See List of hyperbolic comets and C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
Caesar's Comet
Caesar's Comet (also Sidus Iulium ("Julian Star"); Caesaris astrum ("Star of Caesar"); Comet Caesar; the Great Comet of 44 BC; numerical designation C/−43 K1) was a seven-day cometary outburst seen in July 44 BC.
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Carl A. Wirtanen
Carl Alvar Wirtanen (November 11, 1910 – March 7, 1990) was an American astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets who worked at Lick Observatory.
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Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker
Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (28 May 1788 – 21 December 1862) was a German astronomer.
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Carlos Torres (astronomer)
Carlos Torres (1929–2011) was a Chilean astronomer of the University of Chile and an individual member of the International Astronomical Union on several commissions.
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Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 – August 13, 2021) was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Catalina Sky Survey
Catalina Sky Survey (CSS; obs. code: 703) is an astronomical survey to discover comets and asteroids.
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Charles Dillon Perrine
Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867June 21, 1951) was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936).
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Charles Fabry
Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867 – 11 December 1945) was a French physicist working on optics.
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Charles Messier
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer.
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Comet
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.
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Comet Arend–Roland
Comet Arend–Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956, by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland on photographic plates.
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Comet Hale–Bopp
Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet Hale–Bopp
Comet ISON
Comet ISON, formally known as C/2012 S1, was a sungrazing comet from the Oort cloud which was discovered on 21 September 2012 by Vitaly Nevsky (Віталь Неўскі, Vitebsk, Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (Артём Новичонок, Kondopoga, Russia).
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet ISON
Comet Kohoutek
Comet Kohoutek (formally designated C/1973 E1 and formerly as 1973 XII and 1973f) is a comet that passed close to the Sun towards the end of 1973.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet Kohoutek
Comet McNaught
Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on 7 August 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet McNaught
Comet Morehouse
Comet Morehouse (modern formal designation: C/1908 R1) was a bright, non-periodic comet discovered by US astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse and first observed on September 1, 1908, at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet Morehouse
Comet of 1729
The Comet of 1729, also known as C/1729 P1 or Comet Sarabat, was an assumed parabolic comet with an absolute magnitude of −3, the brightest ever observed for a comet; it is therefore considered to be potentially the largest comet ever seen.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet of 1729
Comet Skorichenko–George
Comet Skorichenko–George (sometimes spelled Scorichenko–George) is also designated C/1989 Y1, 1990 VI, and 1989e1.
See List of hyperbolic comets and Comet Skorichenko–George
Comet White–Ortiz–Bolelli
Comet White–Ortiz–Bolelli (formal designations: C/1970 K1, 1970 VI, and 1970f) was a bright comet which appeared in 1970.
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Cuno Hoffmeister
Cuno Hoffmeister (2 February 1892 – 2 January 1968) was a German astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory.
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Cyril Jackson (astronomer)
Cyril V. Jackson (5 December 1903 – February 1988) was a South African astronomer, known for discovering 72 asteroids and a number of comets.
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Daniel du Toit
Daniel Stefanus du Toit (1917–1981) was a South African astronomer.
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David H. Levy
David Howard Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian amateur astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
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Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees.
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Dirk Klinkenberg
Dirk Klinkenberg (15 November 1709, Haarlem – 3 March 1799, The Hague) was secretary of the Dutch government for 40 years.
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Donald D. Clayton
Donald Delbert Clayton (March 18, 1935 – January 3, 2024) was an American astrophysicist whose most visible achievement was the prediction from nucleosynthesis theory that supernovae are intensely radioactive.
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Donald Machholz
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Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer.
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Edwin Foster Coddington
Edwin Foster Coddington (June 24, 1870 – December 21, 1950) was an American astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects.
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Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin (née Francis, 19 November 1932 – 25 January 2009) was an American astronomer.
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Emmanuel Liais
Emmanuel Liais (15 February 1826–5 March 1900) was a French-Brazilian astronomer, botanist and explorer who spent many years in Brazil.
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Ephorus
Ephorus of Cyme (Ἔφορος ὁ Κυμαῖος, Ephoros ho Kymaios; 330 BC) was an ancient Greek historian known for his universal history.
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Eric J. Christensen
Eric James Christensen (born 1977 December 5) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of comets.
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Ernst Hartwig
Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (14 January 1851 in Frankfurt – 3 May 1923 in Bamberg) was a German astronomer.
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Ewen Whitaker
Ewen Adair Whitaker (22 June 1922 – 11 October 2016) was a British-born astronomer who specialized in lunar studies.
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ʻOumuamua
Oumuamua is the first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
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Francesco de Vico
Father Francesco de Vico (also known as de Vigo, De Vico and even DeVico; 19 May 1805 in Macerata – 15 November 1848 in London) was an Italian astronomer and a Jesuit priest.
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Frank Skjellerup
John Francis Skjellerup (aka James Francis Skjellerup; 16 May 1875 – 6 January 1952) was an Australian amateur astronomer who spent two decades working as a telegraphist in South Africa.
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Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years.
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Fred Watson
Frederick Garnett Watson AM (born 14 December 1944) is an English-born astronomer and popular scientist in Australia.
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Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (5 February 1835 in Groß-Heere, near Hannover – 3 December 1897 in Bonn) was a German astronomer.
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Galactic tide
A galactic tide is a tidal force experienced by objects subject to the gravitational field of a galaxy such as the Milky Way.
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Gennadiy Borisov
Gennadiy Vladimirovich Borisov (Генна́дий Влади́мирович Бори́сов; born in 1962 in Kramatorsk) is a Russian telescope maker and amateur astronomer who discovered the first-known interstellar comet, 2I/Borisov, in 2019.
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George Alcock
George Eric Deacon Alcock, MBE (28 August 1912, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire – 15 December 2000) was an English amateur astronomer.
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George O. Abell
George Ogden Abell (March 27, 1927 – October 7, 1983) was an American educator.
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George Phillips Bond
George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825February 17, 1865) was an American astronomer.
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George Van Biesbroeck
George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck,, January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer.
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Giovanni Battista Donati
Giovanni Battista Donati (16 December 182620 September 1873) was an Italian astronomer.
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Gordon J. Garradd
Gordon John Garradd (born 1959) is an Australian amateur astronomer and photographer from Loomberah, New South Wales.
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Great Comet of 1264
The Great Comet of 1264 (C/1264 N1) was one of the brightest comets on record.
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Great Comet of 1402
The Great Comet of 1402 was a bright comet seen between February and April 1402.
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Great Comet of 1556
The Great Comet of 1556 (designated C/1556 D1 in modern nomenclature) was a comet that first appeared in February 1556, and which was observed throughout much of Europe.
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Great Comet of 1577
The Great Comet of 1577 is a non-periodic comet that passed close to Earth with first observation being possible in Peru on November 1 1577.
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Great Comet of 1744
The Great Comet of 1744, whose official designation is C/1743 X1, and which is also known as Comet de Chéseaux or Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux, was a spectacular comet that was observed during 1743 and 1744.
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Great Comet of 1819
The Great Comet of 1819, officially designated as C/1819 N1, also known as Comet Tralles, was an exceptionally bright and easily visible comet, approaching an apparent magnitude of 1–2, discovered July 1, 1819 by the German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles in Berlin.
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Great Comet of 371 BC
The Great Comet of 372–371 BC (sometimes Aristotle's Comet) was a comet that is thought to possibly be the source of the Kreutz sungrazer family.
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Great Southern Comet of 1887
The Great Southern Comet of 1887, or C/1887 B1 using its International Astronomical Union (IAU) designation, was a bright comet seen from the Southern Hemisphere during January 1887.
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Grigory Neujmin
Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin (Григорий Николаевич Неуймин; – 17 December 1946) was a Georgian–Russian astronomer, native of Tbilisi in Georgia, and a discoverer of numerous minor planets as well as 6 periodic and a hyperbolic comet at the Pulkovo and Simeiz Observatories during the first half of the 20th century.
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Grigory Shajn
Grigory Abramovich Shajn (Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.
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Guillermo Haro
Guillermo Haro Barraza (21 March 1913 – 26 April 1988) was a Mexican astronomer.
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György Kulin
György Kulin (28 January 1905 – 22 April 1989) was a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
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Hans-Emil Schuster
Hans-Emil Schuster (born 19 September 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991.
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Harold Spencer Jones
Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS (29 March 1890 – 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer.
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Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (13 August 1822 – 14 June 1875) was a German astronomer, born in Berlin.
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer.
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Hendrik van Gent
Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam) was a Dutch astronomer.
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Henry E. Holt
Henry E. Holt (27 September 1929 - 5 May 2019) was an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets, who has worked as a planetary geologist at the United States Geological Survey and Northern Arizona University.
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Henry Norris Russell
Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910).
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Hiroshi Abe (astronomer)
is a Japanese amateur astronomer affiliated with the Yatsuka Observatory.
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Horace Parnell Tuttle
Horace Parnell Tuttle (March 17, 1837 – August 16, 1923) was an American astronomer, an American Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle (November 1, 1829 – July 17, 1881).
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Howard J. Brewington
Howard J. Brewington (born December 3, 1952, in South Carolina) is an American comet discoverer and former professional telescope operator of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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Hyperbolic trajectory
In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics, a hyperbolic trajectory or hyperbolic orbit is the trajectory of any object around a central body with more than enough speed to escape the central object's gravitational pull.
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International Scientific Optical Network
The International Scientific Optical Network or ISON (Международная научная оптическая сеть, Пулковская кооперация оптическихнаблюдателей) is an international project, currently consisting of about 30 telescopes at about 20 observatories in about ten countries (Russia, Ukraine (Andrushivka), Georgia (Abastumani), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Spain (Teide), Switzerland (Zimmerwald), Bolivia (Tarija), USA (Mayhill), Italy (Collepardo)) which have organized to detect, monitor and track objects in space.
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Interstellar object
An interstellar object is an astronomical object (such as an asteroid, a comet, or a rogue planet, but not a star or stellar remnant) in interstellar space that is not gravitationally bound to a star.
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IRAS
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (Dutch: Infrarood Astronomische Satelliet) (IRAS) was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths.
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James Dunlop
James Dunlop FRSE (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a Scottish astronomer, noted for his work in Australia.
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Jérôme Eugène Coggia
Jérôme Eugène Coggia (18 February 1849 – 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets, who was born in the Corsican town of Ajaccio.
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Jean Chacornac
Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 23 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids.
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Jean Mueller
Jean Mueller (born 1950) is an American astronomer and discoverer of comets, minor planets, and a large number of supernovas at the U.S. Palomar Observatory in California.
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Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart
Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart (12 May 1800 – 23 July 1836) was a French astronomer.
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Jean-Louis Pons
Jean-Louis Pons (24 December 176114 October 1831) was a French astronomer.
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Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux
Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (4 May 1718 – 30 November 1751) was a Swiss astronomer.
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Jeff T. Alu
Jeffrey (Jeff) Thomas Alu (born January 1, 1966) is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer who has participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey.
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Joel Hastings Metcalf
Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer, humanitarian and minister.
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Johann Elert Bode
Johann Elert Bode (19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law.
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Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at.
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Johann Palisa
Johann Palisa (6 December 1848 – 2 May 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic.
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John Broughton
John Broughton (born 1952) is an Australian amateur astronomer and artist.
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John E. Mellish
John Edward Mellish (12 January 1886 – 13 July 1970, Medford, Oregon) was an American amateur astronomer and telescope builder.
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John Grigg (astronomer)
John Grigg (4 June 1838 – 20 June 1920) was a New Zealand astronomer.
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John Herapath
John Herapath (30 May 1790 – 24 February 1868) was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was neglected by the scientific community at the time.
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John Herschel
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work.
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John Martin Schaeberle
John Martin Schaeberle (January 10, 1853 – September 17, 1924) was a Kingdom of Württemberg-born American astronomer.
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John Russell Hind
John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD (12 May 1823 – 23 December 1895) was an English astronomer.
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Josep Comas i Solà
Josep Comas i Solà (Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937) was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars.
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Joseph Nicollet
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
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JPL Small-Body Database
The JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB) is an astronomy database about small Solar System bodies.
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Kaoru Ikeya
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets.
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Karl Christian Bruhns
Karl Christian Bruhns (22 November 1830 – 25 July 1881) was a German astronomer.
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Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer
Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer (16 February 1816 – 6 July 1873) was a Swiss astronomer who travelled to Moscow in 1845 to become Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Survey Institute, and later director of the Moscow University Observatory.
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Kazimieras Černis
Kazimieras Černis (born November 11, 1958, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist, active member of the IAU, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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Kenneth J. Lawrence
Kenneth J. Lawrence (born 1964) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.
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Kent R. Weeks
Kent R. Weeks (born December 16, 1941) is an American Egyptologist.
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Kenzo Suzuki (astronomer)
is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan.
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Kesao Takamizawa
is a Japanese astronomer and entomologist.
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Konrad Rudnicki
Konrad Rudnicki (born 2 July 1926 in Warsaw, Poland, died 12 November 2013 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and a priest of the Old Catholic Mariavite Church.
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Kreutz sungrazer
The Kreutz sungrazers are a family of sungrazing comets, characterized by orbits taking them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion.
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La Sagra Observatory
La Sagra Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra; OLS; observatory code: L98) is an astronomical observatory located in the province of Granada, Spain.
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Leland Cunningham
Leland Erskin Cunningham (February 10, 1904, in Wiscasset, Maine – May 31, 1989, in Richmond, California) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
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Leonid Elenin
Leonid Vladimirovich Elenin (Леони́д Влади́мирович Еле́нин; born 10 August 1981) is a Russian amateur astronomer working with the ISON-NM observatory (H15) via the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), which is the first Russian remote observatory in the West.
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Leslie Peltier
Leslie Copus Peltier (January 2, 1900 – May 10, 1980) was an American amateur astronomer and discoverer of several comets and novae, including Nova Herculis 1963.
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Lewis A. Swift
Lewis A. Swift (February 29, 1820 – January 5, 1913) was an American astronomer who discovered 13 comets and 1,248 previously uncatalogued nebulae.
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Liisi Oterma
Liisi Oterma (6 January 1915 – 4 April 2001) was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.
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Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project is a collaboration of the United States Air Force, NASA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic detection and tracking of near-Earth objects.
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List of comets by type
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. List of hyperbolic comets and list of comets by type are lists of comets.
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List of Halley-type comets
The following is a list of Halley-type comets (HTCs), which are periodic comets with an orbital period between 20 and 200 years, often appearing only once or twice within one's lifetime. List of hyperbolic comets and list of Halley-type comets are lists of comets.
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List of minor planet discoverers
This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects).
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List of near-parabolic comets
The following is a list of comets with a very high eccentricity (generally 0.99 or higher) and a period of over 1,000 years that do not quite have a high enough velocity to escape the Solar System. List of hyperbolic comets and list of near-parabolic comets are lists of comets.
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List of numbered comets
This is a list of periodic comets that were numbered by the Minor Planet Center after having been observed on at least two occasions. List of hyperbolic comets and list of numbered comets are lists of comets.
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List of periodic comets
Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang). List of hyperbolic comets and List of periodic comets are lists of comets.
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List of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion
This is a list of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion or the greatest distance from the Sun that the orbit could take it if the Sun and object were the only objects in the universe.
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Logarithmic scale
A logarithmic scale (or log scale) is a method used to display numerical data that spans a broad range of values, especially when there are significant differences between the magnitudes of the numbers involved.
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Lorenzo Respighi
Lorenzo Respighi (7 October 1824 – 10 December 1889) was an Italian mathematician and natural philosopher.
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Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth.
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Luboš Kohoutek
Luboš Kohoutek (29 January 1935 – 30 December 2023) was a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973.
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Malcolm Hartley
Malcolm Hartley (born 15 February 1947, Bury, Greater Manchester) is an English-born astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who works with the UK Schmidt Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
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Masayuki Iwamoto
is a Japanese astronomer from Awa in the Tokushima Prefecture.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 14001–15000
004 | 14004 Chikama || || Taketo Chikama (born 1961) is a founding member of the Fukuoka Astronomical Society.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 196001–197000
476 | 196476 Humfernández || || Humberto Fernández-Morán (1924–1999), Venezuelan research scientist who developed the diamond knife.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–8000
013 | 7013 Trachet || || Tim Trachet (born 1958), Belgian journalist and science writer.
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Messier 41
Messier 41 (also known as M41 or NGC 2287) is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major.
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Michel Giacobini
Michel Giacobini (1873–1938) was a French astronomer.
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Michel Meunier
Michel Meunier is a professor of engineering physics and biomedical engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, a position has he held since 1986.
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Milton L. Humason
Milton La Salle Humason (August 19, 1891 – June 18, 1972) was an American astronomer.
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Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
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Minoru Honda
was a Japanese astronomer.
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Mount Lemmon Survey
Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96.
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N. R. Pogson
Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory.
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Naming of comets
Comets have been observed for over 2,000 years.
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Naoto Satō
is a Japanese amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and, by profession, a junior high school science teacher.
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Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects.
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Nobuhisa Kojima
is a Japanese astronomer.
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Observation arc
In observational astronomy, the observation arc (or arc length) of a Solar System body is the time period between its earliest and latest observations, used for tracing the body's path.
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Oort cloud
The Oort cloud, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU (0.03 to 3.2 light-years).
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Orbital eccentricity
In astrodynamics, the orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a dimensionless parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.
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Orbital inclination
Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.
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Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski
Palm (or Palon) Heinrich Ludwig (Pruß) von Boguslawski (7 September 1789 – 5 June 1851) was a German astronomy professor and observatory director in Breslau (Wrocław).
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Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States.
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Pan-STARRS
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects.
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Parabolic trajectory
In astrodynamics or celestial mechanics a parabolic trajectory is a Kepler orbit with the eccentricity equal to 1 and is an unbound orbit that is exactly on the border between elliptical and hyperbolic.
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Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer)
Paul Wild (5 October 1925 – 2 July 2014) was a Swiss astronomer and director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, who discovered numerous comets, asteroids and supernovae.
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Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier
Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier (22 December 1812, in Paris – 5 April 1872) was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier.
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Paulo R. Holvorcem
Paulo Renato Centeno Holvorcem (born 10 July 1967) is a Brazilian amateur astronomer and mathematician who lives in Brasilia, Brazil.
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Pepi I Meryre
Pepi I Meryre (also Pepy I) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled for over 40 years at the turn of the 24th and 23rd centuries BC, toward the end of the Old Kingdom period.
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Perturbation (astronomy)
In astronomy, perturbation is the complex motion of a massive body subjected to forces other than the gravitational attraction of a single other massive body.
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Pierre Méchain
Pierre François André Méchain (16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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Poul Jensen (astronomer)
Poul B. Jensen is a Danish astronomer and a discoverer of 98 minor planets while working at Brorfelde Observatory.
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Qingyang event
The Qingyang event was a presumed meteor shower or air burst that took place near Qingyang in March or April 1490.
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Retrograde and prograde motion
Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is, the central object (right figure).
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Richard D. Lines
Richard D. Lines (April 21, 1916 – June 29, 1992) was an American amateur astronomer.
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Robert Burnham Jr.
Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook.
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Robert Evans (astronomer)
Robert Owen Evans, OAM (20 February 1937 – 8 November 2022) was an Australian minister of the Uniting Church in Hazelbrook, New South Wales, and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernovae (42).
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Robert George Harrington
Robert George Harrington (December 3, 1904 – June 15, 1987) was an American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory.
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Robert H. McNaught
Robert H. McNaught (born in Scotland in 1956) is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University (ANU).
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Robert Weber (astronomer)
Robert Weber (1926–2008) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets who ran the precursor to the LINEAR project shortly before his retirement in 1996.
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Robert Wilson (astronomer)
Sir Robert Wilson (16 April 1927 – 2 September 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist.
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Rudolph Minkowski
Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski;; May 28, 1895 – January 4, 1976) was a German-American astronomer.
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Sebastian F. Hönig
Sebastian Florian Hönig (born 1978) is a German astronomer, Professor of Observational & Computational Astrophysics (and Head of School elect) in the astronomy group of the University of Southampton School of Physics & Astronomy, and discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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Sergey Belyavsky
Sergey Ivanovich Belyavsky (Серге́й Ива́нович Беля́вский; December 7, 1883 (Julian calendar: November 25) – October 13, 1953) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of 36 numbered minor planets.
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Shaun M. Hughes
Shaun M. Hughes was an Australian astronomer at Siding Spring Observatory.
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Shigehisa Fujikawa
is a Japanese astronomer.
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Siding Spring Survey
The Siding Spring Survey (SSS) was a near-Earth object search program that used the 0.5-metre Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS (born 20 May 1929) is a retired Dutch-Canadian astronomer.
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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995, to study the Sun.
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Solar Maximum Mission
The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate Solar phenomena, particularly solar flares.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Solwind
P78-1 or Solwind was a United States satellite launched aboard an Atlas F rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 24, 1979.
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Spacewatch
The Spacewatch Project is an astronomical survey that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets at University of Arizona telescopes on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.
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Star of Bethlehem
The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 where "wise men from the East" (Magi) are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.
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STEREO
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a solar observation mission.
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Sungrazing comet
A sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion – sometimes within a few thousand kilometres of the Sun's surface.
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Sylvain Arend
Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (6 August 1902 – 18 February 1992) was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg province, Belgium.
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Teide Observatory
Teide Observatory (Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at, located on Tenerife, Spain.
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Tenagra Observatories
Tenagra Observatory and Tenagra Observatory II are astronomical observatories in Cottage Grove, Oregon and Arizona.
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Theodor Brorsen
Theodor Johan Christian Ambders Brorsen (29 July 1819 – 31 March 1895) was a Danish astronomer.
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Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty (2010) and Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Toru Kobayashi
is/was a Japanese astronomer.
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission.
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Tsutomu Seki
is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, born in Kōchi, Japan.
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Victor Mauvais
Félix-Victor Mauvais (or Victor Mauvais; March 7, 1809 – March 22, 1854) was a French politician and astronomer.
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Walter Baade
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.
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Walter Frederick Gale
Walter Frederick Gale (27 November 1865 – 1 June 1945) was an Australian banker.
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009.
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Wilhelm Klinkerfues
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (29 March 1827 in Hofgeismar – 28 January 1884 in Göttingen) was a German astronomer and meteorologist.
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Wilhelm Tempel
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (4 December 1821 – 16 March 1889), normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy.
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William A. Bradfield
William Ashley Bradfield (20 June 1927 – 9 June 2014) was a New Zealand-born Australian amateur astronomer, notable as a prolific amateur discoverer of comets.
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William Frederick Denning
William Frederick Denning (25 November 1848 – 9 June 1931) was a British amateur astronomer who achieved considerable success without formal scientific training.
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William Kwong Yu Yeung
William Kwong Yu Yeung (born 1960; also known simply as Bill Yeung) is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian amateur astronomer with telescopes based in the United States.
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William Robert Brooks
William Robert Brooks (June 11, 1844 – May 3, 1921) was a British-born American astronomer, mainly noted as being one of the most prolific discoverers of new comets of all time, second only to Jean-Louis Pons.
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X/1106 C1
X/1106 C1, also known as the Great Comet of 1106, was a great comet that appeared on 2 February 1106, and was observed around the world from the beginning of February through to mid-March.
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X/1872 X1
X/1872 X1, occasionally referred to as "Pogson's Comet", was a probable cometary astronomical object seen from Madras (now Chennai) on December 3 and 4, 1872, by astronomer N. R. Pogson.
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Yuji Hyakutake
was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996, while using 25×150 binoculars.
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Zwicky Transient Facility
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, obs. code: I41) is a wide-field sky astronomical survey using a new camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States.
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153P/Ikeya–Zhang
Comet Ikeya–Zhang (Japanese, Chinese: 池谷-張彗星, officially designated 153P/Ikeya–Zhang) is a comet discovered independently by two astronomers from Japan and China in 2002.
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2I/Borisov
2I/Borisov, originally designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), is the first observed rogue comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua. List of hyperbolic comets and 2I/Borisov are hyperbolic comets.
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See also
Hyperbolic comets
- 2I/Borisov
- C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
- C/1989 W1 (Aarseth–Brewington)
- C/1989 X1 (Austin)
- C/1990 K1 (Levy)
- C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
- C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
- C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
- C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
- C/2017 U7 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
- C/2018 F4 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
- C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
- List of hyperbolic comets
Lists of comets
- List of Halley-type comets
- List of Kreutz Sungrazers
- List of astronomical objects named after people
- List of comets by type
- List of comets discovered by the LINEAR project
- List of comets with no meaningful orbit
- List of hyperbolic comets
- List of long-period comets
- List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft
- List of near-parabolic comets
- List of numbered comets
- List of periodic comets
- Lists of comets
- Lost comet
References
Also known as C/ 2019 E3 (ATLAS), C/1852 K1, C/1879 Q1, C/1879 Q1 (Palisa), C/1879 Q2, C/1880 S1, C/1886 T1, C/1914 M1, C/1914 M1 (Neujmin), C/1925 F1, C/1925 F1 (Shajn–Comas Sola), C/1941 K1, C/1941 K1 (van Gent), C/1943 W1, C/1943 W1 (van Gent–Peltier–Daimaca), C/1944 K2, C/1944 K2 (van Gent), C/1947 Y1, C/1947 Y1 (Mrkos), C/1957 U1, C/1957 U1 (Latyshev–Wild–Burnham), C/1959 O1, C/1959 O1 (Bester–Hoffmeister), C/1967 C2, C/1967 C2 (Wild), C/1968 U1, C/1968 U1 (Wild), C/1989 Y2, C/1989 Y2 (McKenzie–Russell), C/2000 U5, C/2000 U5 (LINEAR), C/2002 O4, C/2002 O4 (Hoenig), C/2003 A2 (Gleason), C/2009 G1 (STEREO), C/2009 O4, C/2009 O4 (Hill), C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS), C/2019 E3, C/2019 E3 (ATLAS), Hyperbolic comet, List of parabolic comets.
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