• D/1770 L1, popularly known as Lexell's Comet after its orbit computer Anders Johan Lexell, was a comet discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in June...
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    statement attributed to Leonhard Euler expresses high approval of Lexell's works: "Besides Lexell, such a paper could only be written by D'Alambert or me". Daniel...
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  • comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen)...
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    55P/Tempel–Tuttle's orbit from 1990 to 2180 Comet IRAS–Araki–Alcock (Comet close approach 1983) Lexell's Comet (Lost comet close approach in 1770) 252P/LINEAR...
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    case of Lexell's Comet. As some comets periodically undergo "outbursts" or flares in brightness, it may be possible for an intrinsically faint comet to be...
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    approaches. The closest observed approach was 0.0151 AU (5.88 LD) for Lexell's Comet on July 1, 1770. After an orbit change due to a close approach of Jupiter...
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    of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691. Lexell's Comet: -- Comet ("D/1770 L1") is named after Lexell. National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"...
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  • religious procession in Abbeville, France. 1770 – Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance...
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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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    000 mi). It was the closest approach up to that time of any comet in 200 years; only Lexell's Comet, in 1770, and 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, in 1366, are thought to...
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    geometry, Lexell's theorem holds that every spherical triangle with the same surface area on a fixed base has its apex on a small circle, called Lexell's circle...
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  • academic. 2004 Lexell, a main belt asteroid D/1770 L1 (Lexell), lost short-periodic comet Lexell (crater), a 2.2 km-deep lunar crater This disambiguation...
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    historical comets). D/ indicates a periodic comet that has disappeared, broken up, or been lost. Examples include Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) and Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9...
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    July 1 – Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth at a distance of 2,184,129 kilometres (1,357,155 mi), the closest approach by a comet in recorded...
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    impacts on Earth than it has prevented. Lexell's Comet, a 1770 near miss that passed closer to Earth than any other comet in recorded history, was known to...
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    ginseng in the Kanda district of Edo. The year 1770 saw a great comet (Lexell's Comet) with a very long tail light up the night skies throughout the summer...
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  • apartment and rapes her. In his observatory, Martial determines that Lexell's Comet is on a collision course with Earth. Jean predicts a coming apocalypse...
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  • crater Lexell was also named in his honor, as is Lexell's Comet, of which he computed its orbit. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 2004 Lexell (1973 SV2)"...
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  • 1930. It is one of only four comets not named after their discoverer(s), the other three being Comets Halley, Encke, and Lexell. It next comes to perihelion...
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    (Messier) is a long-period comet that was visible to the naked eye at its last apparition in 1769. The comet is classified as a great comet due to its superlative...
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    The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (category Fiction about comets)
    University speculate that Lexell's Comet and Biela's Comet inspired the story. Biela's Comet was reputed to have caused a "comet panic" in 1832, after a...
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    July 1 – Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth at a distance of 2,184,129 kilometres (1,357,155 mi), the closest approach by a comet in recorded...
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  • brought to the attention of the Royal Society of London. He observed Lexell's Comet in July 1770 and corresponded again with Winthrop and other astronomers...
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    involved some significant events. July 1 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance...
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    460P/PanSTARRS (category Comets in 2016)
    460P/PanSTARRS had the closest known approach of Earth by a comet since 1770, when Lexell's Comet is calculated to have passed within 1.4 million miles (2...
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    closest approach of any comet in the 20th century, and the closest since Lexell's Comet on July 1, 1770. The Cyclone, at the time the world's largest and fastest...
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  • total of 84 comets, especially Comet Messier (C/1769 P1), Comet Lexell (D/1770 L1), the Great Comet of 1771 (C/1771 A1, 1770 II), Comet Montaigne (C/1774...
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    Charles Messier (category Discoverers of comets)
    interest in astronomy was stimulated by the appearance of the great six-tailed comet in 1744 and by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown on 25 July...
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  • C/2012 E2 (SWAN) (category Comet stubs)
    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...
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    1847, Le Verrier published a series of works on periodic comets, in particular those of Lexell, Faye and DeVico. He was able to show some interesting interactions...
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