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    comets "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/1680 V1" (1681-03-19 last obs (Encke: 125-day data arc)). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 26 July 2011....
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    Comet (redirect from Encke-type comet)
    spacecraft on a comet. The word comet derives from the Old English cometa from the Latin comēta or comētēs. That, in turn, is a romanization of the Greek κομήτης...
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    Ducas Imp. et Michael filius eius suscepit Imperium, et apparuit stella cometa, et Comes Normanniae Robertus fecit bellum cum Arnaldo Rege Anglorum, et...
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    orbital period of about 70 years with an error of about 5 years. Johann Franz Encke determined a definitive orbit with a period of 70.68 years. This orbit was...
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