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173 relations: Akihiko Tago, Alexandre Schaumasse, All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae, Alphonse Borrelly, Andrea Boattini, Antonín Mrkos, Apsis, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, Astronomical unit, Bart Bok, Barycenter (astronomy), Brian A. Skiff, Brian P. Roman, C/1807 R1, C/1911 O1, C/1941 B2 (de Kock–Paraskevopoulos), C/1942 X1 (Whipple–Fedtke–Tevzadze), C/1948 V1, C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch), C/1999 F1 (Catalina), C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley), C/2002 V1 (NEAT), C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy), C/2012 F6 (Lemmon), C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden), C/2014 E2 (Jacques), C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS), C/2019 U6 (Lemmon), C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), C/2020 F8 (SWAN), Carl A. Wirtanen, Carl Clarence Kiess, Carl Leo Stearns, Carl W. Hergenrother, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Catalina Sky Survey, Charles Dillon Perrine, Charles Messier, Charles W. Juels, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Comet, Comet Bennett, Comet Donati, Comet Hale–Bopp, Comet Humason, Comet Hyakutake, Comet Ikeya–Seki, ... Expand index (123 more) »
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Akihiko Tago
is a Japanese amateur astronomer.
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Alexandre Schaumasse
Alexandre Schaumasse (1882–1958) was a French astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets.
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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.
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Alphonse Borrelly
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (December 8, 1842 – February 28, 1926) was a French astronomer.
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Andrea Boattini
Andrea Boattini (born 16 September 1969) is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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Antonín Mrkos
Antonín Mrkos (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czech astronomer.
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Apsis
An apsis is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.
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Arno Arthur Wachmann
Arno Arthur Wachmann (8 March 1902 – 24 July 1990) was a German astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who worked for many years at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg.
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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.
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Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to.
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Bart Bok
Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok (April 28, 1906 – August 5, 1983) was a Dutch-American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer.
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Barycenter (astronomy)
In astronomy, the barycenter (or barycentre) is the center of mass of two or more bodies that orbit one another and is the point about which the bodies orbit.
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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).
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Brian P. Roman
Brian P. Roman is an American astronomer.
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C/1807 R1
C/1807 R1, also known as the Great Comet of 1807, is a long-period comet.
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C/1911 O1
C/1911 O1 (Brooks), also designated 1911 V or Comet Brooks, was a bright comet discovered in July 1911 by astronomer William Robert Brooks.
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C/1941 B2 (de Kock–Paraskevopoulos)
Comet de Kock–Paraskevopoulos (also known with the designations C/1941 B2, 1941 IV, 1941c) is a non-periodic comet discovered on 15 January 1941.
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C/1942 X1 (Whipple–Fedtke–Tevzadze)
C/1942 X1 (Whipple–Fedtke–Tevzadze) is a non-periodic comet discovered on 8 December 1942 by Fred Whipple and independently, on later days, by Carl Fedtke and G. A. Tevzadze.
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C/1948 V1
The Eclipse Comet of 1948, formally known as C/1948 V1, was an especially bright comet discovered during a solar eclipse on November 1, 1948.
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C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch)
C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch) is a comet that was discovered 1 May 1992 by David Rabinowitz of the Spacewatch Project.
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C/1999 F1 (Catalina)
C/1999 F1 (Catalina) is one of the longest known long-period comets.
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C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley)
C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley) is a near-parabolic long-period comet, discovered by Robert McNaught and Malcolm Hartley at the Siding Spring Observatory in 1999.
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C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) is a non-periodic comet that appeared in November 2002.
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C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) is a non-periodic comet discovered by Terry Lovejoy on 15 March 2007.
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C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) is a long-period comet discovered in Leo on 23 March 2012, by A. R. Gibbs using the 1.5-m reflector at the Mt. Lemmon Survey, located at the summit of Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 7 September 2013 by Terry Lovejoy using a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope.
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C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)
C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) is a retrograde Oort cloud comet discovered on 12 November 2013 by Oukaimeden Observatory at an apparent magnitude of 19.4 using a reflecting telescope.
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C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
C/2014 E2 (Jacques), provisionally designated as S002692, is a long-period comet discovered by the Brazilian astronomers Cristóvão Jacques Lage de Faria, Eduardo Pimentel, João Ribeiro de Barros and Marcelo Dias on the night of 13 March 2014.
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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy using a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope.
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C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS)
C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 2 October 2017 when it was from the Sun.
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C/2019 U6 (Lemmon)
C/2019 U6 (Lemmon), or Comet Lemmon is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on October 31, 2019.
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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.
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C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
C/2020 F8 (SWAN), or Comet SWAN, is an Oort cloud comet that was discovered in images taken by the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) camera on March 25, 2020, aboard the Solar Heliospheric Observer (SOHO) spacecraft.
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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 Clarence Kiess
Carl Clarence Kiess (October 18, 1887 – October 16, 1967) was an American astronomer.
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Carl Leo Stearns
Carl Leo Stearns (1892-November 28, 1972) was an American astronomer.
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Carl W. Hergenrother
Carl William Hergenrother (born 1973) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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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.
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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 Messier
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer.
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Charles W. Juels
Charles W. Juels (1944 – January 21, 2009) was an American amateur astronomer and psychiatrist by profession, who became a prolific discoverer of minor planets after his retirement.
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Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (born 1944) is a Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory.
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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 Bennett
Comet Bennett, formally known as C/1969 Y1 (old style 1970 II and 1969i), was one of the two bright comets observed in the 1970s, along with Comet West and is considered a great comet.
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Comet Donati
Comet Donati, or Donati's Comet, formally designated C/1858 L1 and 1858 VI, is a long-period comet named after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati who first observed it on June 2, 1858.
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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.
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Comet Humason
Comet Humason, formally designated C/1961 R1 (a.k.a. 1962 VIII and 1961e), was a non-periodic comet discovered by Milton L. Humason on September 1, 1961.
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Comet Hyakutake
Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996.
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Comet Ikeya–Seki
Comet Ikeya–Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a long-period comet discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki.
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Comet Lulin
Comet Lulin (official designation C/2007 N3 (Lulin), Traditional Chinese:鹿林彗星) is a non-periodic comet.
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Comet Machholz
Comet Machholz, formally designated C/2004 Q2, is a long-period comet discovered by Donald Machholz on August 27, 2004.
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Comet McNaught–Russell
Comet C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell) is a long (time) period comet that reached a maximum magnitude of 6.5 (just below naked eye level) in early 1994.
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Comet NEOWISE
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.
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Comet Pojmański
Comet Pojmański is a non-periodic comet discovered by Grzegorz Pojmański on January 2, 2006, and formally designated C/2006 A1.
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Comet Skjellerup–Maristany
Comet Skjellerup–Maristany, formally designated C/1927 X1, 1927 IX, and 1927k, was a long-period comet which became very bright in 1927.
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Comet West
Comet West, formally designated C/1975 V1, 1976 VI, and 1975n, was a comet described as one of the brightest objects to pass through the inner Solar System in 1976.
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Comet Yi–SWAN
Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN) is a non-periodic comet which appeared in March 2009.
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David D. Balam
David D. Balam is a Canadian astronomer and a research associate with University of Victoria's Department of Physics and Astronomy, in Victoria, British Columbia.
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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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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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Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin (née Francis, 19 November 1932 – 25 January 2009) was an American astronomer.
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Epoch (astronomy)
In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity.
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Escape velocity
In celestial mechanics, escape velocity or escape speed is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from contact with or orbit of a primary body, assuming.
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Ferdinand Quénisset
Ferdinand Jules Quénisset (1872–1951) was a French astronomer who specialized in astrophotography.
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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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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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Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann
Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (25 March 1870 – 19 January 1964) was a German astronomer and a discoverer of 22 minor planets and 4 comets, who worked at AOP in Potsdam and at Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg.
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Gao Xing
Gao Xing (born 1974) is a Chinese amateur astronomer from Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
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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 Davidson (geographer)
George Davidson (May 9, 1825 – December 1, 1911) was a geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer in the United States.
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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 1680
C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch's Comet, and Newton's Comet, was the first comet discovered by telescope.
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Great Comet of 1811
The Great Comet of 1811, formally designated C/1811 F1, is a comet that was visible to the naked eye for around 260 days, the longest recorded period of visibility until the appearance of Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.
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Great Comet of 1823
The Great Comet of 1823, also designated C/1823 Y1 or Comet De Bréauté-Pons, was a bright comet visible in the last month of 1823 and the first months of 1824.
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Great January Comet of 1910
The Great January Comet of 1910, formally designated C/1910 A1 and often referred to as the Daylight Comet,.
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Grzegorz Pojmański
Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in Warsaw), is a Polish astronomer and professor at the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland.
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Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)
Guillermo Gonzalez (born 1963) is a Cuban-born American astronomer who is a proponent of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design and a research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, considered the hub of the intelligent design movement, and a fellow with the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, which also promotes intelligent design.
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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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Hiroshi Mori (astronomer)
is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
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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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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 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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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 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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John Russell Hind
John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD (12 May 1823 – 23 December 1895) was an English astronomer.
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John S. Paraskevopoulos
John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (June 20, 1889 – March 15, 1951) also known as John Paras, was a Greek and South African astronomer.
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Julianne Dalcanton
Julianne Dalcanton (born 1968) is an American astronomer, professor of astronomy, researcher and comet discoverer.
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Kaoru Ikeya
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets.
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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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Kōichirō Tomita
was a Japanese astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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Kesao Takamizawa
is a Japanese astronomer and entomologist.
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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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Leon Campbell
Leon Campbell (January 20, 1881 – May 10, 1951) was an American astronomer.
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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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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 near-parabolic 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 near-parabolic comets and list of Halley-type comets are lists of comets.
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List of hyperbolic comets
This is a list of parabolic and hyperbolic comets in the Solar System. List of near-parabolic comets and list of hyperbolic comets are lists of comets.
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List of long-period comets
The following list is of comets with very long orbital periods, defined as between 200 and 1000 years. List of near-parabolic comets and list of long-period 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 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 near-parabolic 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 near-parabolic comets and List of periodic comets are lists of comets.
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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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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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Lulin Observatory
The Lulin Observatory (obs. code: D35) is an astronomical observatory operated by the Institute of Astronomy, National Central University in Taiwan.
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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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Masaru Arai
is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
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Masayuki Iwamoto
is a Japanese astronomer from Awa in the Tokushima Prefecture.
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Matsuo Sugano
is a Japanese astronomer.
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Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography.
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Michel Giacobini
Michel Giacobini (1873–1938) was a French astronomer.
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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
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.
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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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Naming of comets
Comets have been observed for over 2,000 years.
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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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Olaf Hassel
Olaf Hassel (12 May 1898 – 22 August 1972) was a Norwegian amateur astronomer.
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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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Orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.
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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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Orbital period
The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object.
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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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Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
Paul-Pierre Henry (21 August 1848 – 4 January 1905) and his brother Prosper-Mathieu Henry (10 December 1849 – 25 July 1903) were French opticians and astronomers.
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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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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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Planet
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
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Richard Kowalski
Richard A. Kowalski (born 1963) is an American astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, among them, many near-Earth objects.
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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 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 Wilson (astronomer)
Sir Robert Wilson (16 April 1927 – 2 September 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist.
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Roy A. Tucker
Not to be confused with North Carolina Politician Richard Tucker (American politician) Roy A. Tucker (1951 – 2021) was an American astronomer best known for the co-discovery of near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis (formerly known as) along with David J. Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaii.
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Ryves Comet
Ryves Comet, also known as C/1931 P1, 1931 E or 1931c, was discovered by Percy Mayow Ryves, an English amateur astronomer, on August 10, 1931.
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Schelte J. Bus
Schelte John "Bobby" Bus (born 1956) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi and deputy director of NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, United States.
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Semi-major and semi-minor axes
In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely separated points of the perimeter.
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Shigehisa Fujikawa
is a Japanese astronomer.
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Siding Spring Observatory
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU), incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, and other institutions.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Southern Comet of 1947
The Southern Comet of 1947 (also known with the designations C/1947 X1, 1947 XII, and 1947n) was a bright comet that became visible in the southern hemisphere in December 1947.
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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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Steven Kilston
Steven D. Kilston (born 1944) is an American astronomer.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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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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Terry Lovejoy
Terry Lovejoy (born 20 November 1966) is an information technologist from Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, most widely known as an amateur astronomer.
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Timothy B. Spahr
Timothy Bruce Spahr (born 1970) is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets.
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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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Tom Gehrels
Anton M.J. "Tom" Gehrels (February 21, 1925 – July 11, 2011) was a Dutch–American astronomer, Professor of Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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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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Vainu Bappu
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (10 August 1927 – 19 August 1982) was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union.
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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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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 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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Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer)
was a Japanese astrophysicist and a member of the Japan Academy.
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Yrjö Väisälä
Yrjö Väisälä (6 September 1891 – 21 July 1971) was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.
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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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See also
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/1944 H1, C/1944 H1 (Vaisala), C/1960 Y1, C/1960 Y1 (Candy), C/2002 Y1, C/2002 Y1 (Juels–Holvorcem), C/2004 Q1, C/2004 Q1 (Tucker), C/2015 F3 (SWAN), C/2016 M1 (PANSTARRS), List of non-periodic comets, Non-periodic comet, Single-apparition comet.