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...
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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. This produces...
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Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years. It last appeared...
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Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype...
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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. Early...
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1970 Comet West – 1976 Comet Hyakutake – 1996 Comet Hale–Bopp – 1997 Comet McNaught – 2007 Comet Lovejoy – 2011 Comet NEOWISE - 2020 A winter comet reported...
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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...
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The Comet tank or Tank, Cruiser, Comet I (A34) was a British cruiser tank that first saw use near the end of the Second World War, during the Western Allied...
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discovered numerous comets, including Comet West (C/1975 V1), which was one of the brightest comets of the 1970s, and the periodic comets 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura...
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the 1970s, along with Comet West and is considered a great comet. The name is also borne by an altogether different comet, C/1974 V2. Discovered by John...
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numbered comets (1P–471P). There are 405 Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), 38 Encke-type comets (ETCs), 14 Halley-type comets (HTCs), five Chiron-type comets (CTCs)...
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Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (or simply The Great Comet) is a sung-through musical adaptation of a 70-page segment from Leo Tolstoy's 1869...
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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. The...
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(Scottish Parliament electoral region) Comet West, a comet discovered by Danish astronomer Richard M. West 2022 West, an asteroid Wales Evangelical School...
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C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch's Comet, and Newton's Comet, was the first comet discovered by telescope. It was discovered by Gottfried...
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Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996; its passage...
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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...
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Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (redirect from Clovis comet)
damage a 4 km comet: Fig. 1 direct impact would be required, or that the same damage could be caused by a smaller disintegrating comet airburst.: Fig...
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List of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion (section Comets with greatest aphelion (2 body heliocentric))
object. Comet West 70,000 AU (1.1 light-years) C/1999 F1 (Catalina) 66,600 AU (1.05 light-years) C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) 5700 AU (barycentric) Comet Hyakutake...
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Alan Hale (astronomer) (category Discoverers of comets)
Hale (born 1958) is an American professional astronomer, who co-discovered Comet Hale–Bopp along with amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp. Hale specializes in...
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The Blue Comet was a named passenger train operated by Central Railroad of New Jersey from 1929 to 1941 between the New York metropolitan area and Atlantic...
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Comet Electricals Limited, trading as Comet, is an online electrical retail chain based in the United Kingdom. The company sells consumer electronics...
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Arend–Roland Comet Mrkos Comet Ikeya–Seki Comet Bennett Comet Kohoutek Comet West Comet Hyakutake Comet Hale–Bopp Comet McNaught Comet Lovejoy Comet Encke,...
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The Silver Comet Trail is a rail trail in west-northwestern Georgia, United States. Map Trail's PathMap Trail's Path The Silver Comet Trail is named for...
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There are two comets named Ikeya–Seki: C/1965 S1 (this one), and C/1967 Y1, a.k.a. 1968 I, 1967n. Comet Ikeya–Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965...
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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...
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Retrieved June 10, 2009. Baer, Christopher (1994). The Route of the Blue Comet. West Jersey Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society. "Victor Watson...
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Contra Costa College (redirect from West Contra Costa Comets)
College is a public community college in San Pablo, California. It is the west campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. It is part of the...
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Comets have appeared in works of fiction since at least the 1830s. They primarily appear in science fiction as literal objects, but also make occasional...
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The Great Comet of 1264 (C/1264 N1) was one of the brightest comets on record. It appeared in July 1264 and remained visible to the end of September....
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