C/2009 R1

C/2009 R1, 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. ^[1]

6 relations: Comet, Comet McNaught, Comet tail, List of hyperbolic comets, Robert H. McNaught, Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.

Comet

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.

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Comet McNaught

Comet McNaught can refer to any one of more than 50 comets discovered by the astronomer Robert H. McNaught.

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Comet tail

A comet tail—and coma—are features visible in comets when they are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner Solar System.

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List of hyperbolic comets

This is a list of parabolic and hyperbolic comets in the Solar System.

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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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Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope

The Uppsala Schmidt Telescope was moved to Siding Spring Observatory from Mount Stromlo Observatory in 1982.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2009_R1

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