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    Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on 7 August 2006 by British-Australian...
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  • 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. It...
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  • C/2013 O3 McNaught has discovered 26 short-period comets: 191P/McNaught 220P/McNaught 254P/McNaught 260P/McNaught 278P/McNaught P/2004 R1 (McNaught) P/2005...
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    century. It was the second brightest comet viewed by SOHO since its launch in 1995, after comet McNaught in 2007. The comet was recovered in the evening sky...
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  • Comet McNaught can refer to any one of more than 50 comets discovered by the astronomer Robert H. McNaught. C/1987 U3 C/2005 E2 C/2005 L2 C/2005 L3 C/2005...
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    C/2009 R1 (McNaught), one of more than fifty comets known as Comet McNaught, is a non-periodic comet discovered by British-Australian astronomer Robert...
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    with a comet". Astronomy. October 2, 2007. Neugebauer; et al. (2007). "Encounter of the Ulysses Spacecraft with the Ion Tail of Comet MCNaught". The Astrophysical...
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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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  • C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley) is a near-parabolic long-period comet, discovered by Robert McNaught and Malcolm Hartley at the Siding Spring Observatory...
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  • P/2011 P1 (McNaught) was a Jupiter-family comet that passed extremely close to Jupiter on 4 December 2010 and disintegrated by 2012. It was discovered...
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  • McNaught or MacNaught or Macnaught is a Scottish surname deriving from MacNeachdan which is a Gaelic patronymic for the Pictish name Nechdan meaning 'Pure'...
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    Ulysses (spacecraft) (category Missions to comets)
    M. R.; Mäkinen, T.; McComas, D. J. (1 October 2007). "Encounter of the Ulysses Spacecraft with the Ion Tail of Comet McNaught". The Astrophysical Journal...
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    spacecraft Ulysses unexpectedly traversed the tail of Comet McNaught. Schechner Genuth, Sara (1999). Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology...
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    Small-Body Database Browser: C/2006 P1 (McNaught)" (2007-07-11 last obs). Retrieved 17 December 2009. "Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) – facts and figures". Perth Observatory...
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    "Great Moments in Comet History: Comet McNaught". Hubblesite. Retrieved 15 August 2013. Mobberley, Martin (2010). Hunting and Imaging Comets. Springer. p. 34...
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    sungrazing comet ever observed by SOHO, and the brightest comet to appear since Comet McNaught of 2007, which shone at visual magnitude –5.5. Nevertheless...
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    Comets have been observed for over 2,000 years. During that time, several different systems have been used to assign names to each comet, and as a result...
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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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    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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    Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a long-period comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest...
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    130P/McNaught–Hughes is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It takes 6.65 years to orbit the Sun and is 4.2 km in diameter. "JPL Small-Body Database...
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    Hills cloud (category Comets)
    around 1,800 AU. Comet Hyakutake, discovered in 1996 by amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake, has an outbound aphelion of 3,500 AU. Comet McNaught, discovered...
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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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    C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 3 January 2013 by Robert H. McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory using the 0.5-meter (20 in)...
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    some comets, such as Comet West and C/2006 P1 (McNaught). Chéseaux, on March 9, was the last known observer in the northern hemisphere to see the comet, but...
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  • 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...
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    Oort cloud (category Comets)
    Oort cloud. Other comets modeled to have come directly from the outer Oort cloud include C/2006 P1 (McNaught), C/2010 X1 (Elenin), Comet ISON, C/2013 A1...
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  • The McNaught Syndicate was an American newspaper syndicate founded in 1922. It was established by Virgil Venice McNitt (who gave it his name) and Charles...
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    simply known as C/2014 UN271 or Comet Bernardinelli–Bernstein (nicknamed BB), is a large Oort cloud comet discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli...
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    McNaught timed bursts in activity down to ten minutes by narrowing down the clouds of particles to individual streams from each passage of the comet,...
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