Biela's Comet or Comet Biela (official designation: 3D/Biela) was a periodic Jupiter-family comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and...

Biela's Comet 1845 — Great June Comet of 1845 1846 — Biela's Comet 1852 — Biela's Comet 1858 — Comet Donati 1861 — Great Comet of 1861 1874 — Comet Coggia...

The comet was discovered by and named after Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg Observatory on 18 March 1973; Kohoutek had been searching for Biela's Comet and...

discovery of his own: the periodic Biela's Comet, which subsequently split in two and disintegrated. The lunar crater Biela is named after him. Relatively...

suggested that the fire began when a fragment of Biela's Comet impacted the Midwest. Biela's Comet had broken apart in 1845 and had not been observed...

Michigan and Wisconsin that day were caused by impact of fragments from Biela's Comet. This hypothesis was revived in a 1985 book, reviewed in a 1997 documentary...

orbit, that comet became known as Halley's Comet. Similarly, the second and third known periodic comets, Encke's Comet and Biela's Comet, were named after...

There were no reports of discoveries of any such objects. Comet Encke (and Biela's Comet) had a role in scientific history in the generally discredited...

Comet and Biela's Comet inspired the story. Biela's Comet was reputed to have caused a "comet panic" in 1832, after a miscalculation of the comet's trajectory...

shower is associated with Biela's Comet, the showers occurring as Earth passes through old streams left by the comet's tail. The comet was observed to have...

only two years after the fires. The theory states that fragments of Biela's Comet which split into two around 1845, impacted the grounds of the fires...

Publishers. ISBN 9780897331678. Wood, Robert (February 23–26, 2004). Did Biela's Comet Cause the Chicago and Midwest Fires? (PDF). 2004 Planetary Defense Conference:...

object to be the lost Comet Biela, but subsequent orbital calculations have suggested that this was unlikely. Neither Biela's Comet nor Pogson's object...

was close to that of Comet Biela, based on these observations, Edmund Weiss later speculated it may have been part of Biela's comet. The next observation...

passage, or at other points during their orbit. The best-known example is Biela's Comet, which was observed to split into two components before disappearing...

proved that the comet was not a return of Biela's Comet. The 1899 and 1906 appearances were observed, but the comet was lost (see Lost comet) after 1906 until...

Freiherr von Biela, an Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. 3D/Biela, a comet discovered by Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela. Frank Biela, a German...

meteors per hour. Astronomers have often associated the Andromedids with Biela's Comet, which was destroyed in the 19th century, but that connection is disputed...

independently discovered by Charles Messier in 1772 while observing Biela's Comet. It is sometimes described as a 'heart-shaped' figure or a blunt arrowhead...

believed to be a return of Biela's Comet but was later found to be a different object which has been called "Pogson's comet". One of Pogson's assistants...

Comet. Similarly, the second and third known periodic comets, Encke's Comet and Biela's Comet, were named after the astronomers who calculated their...

discoverer of the comet, Pierre Méchain. Other comets that bore the possessive include "Biela's Comet" (3D/Biela) and "Miss Herschel's Comet" (35P/Herschel–Rigollet...

likewise comets given a periodic number and subsequently lost are given [n]D instead of [n]P, such as 3D/Biela or 5D/Brorsen. In nearly all cases, comets are...

of Biela’s Comet in 1845-’6” (1858), “Results of Additional Investigations respecting the two Nuclei of Biela’s Comet” (1854), and “On Biela’s Comet” (1858)...

did significant research on the elliptical orbital calculations of Biela's Comet. He died at the age of 57 on July 16, 1860, in Vienna. He is buried...

December 9, 1896. For some time it was thought to be a fragment of Biela's Comet. It was considered lost after the 1909 appearance, but was rediscovered...

he showed the connection between meteors (the Andromedids) and comets (Biela's Comet), and he predicted the shower which recurred on 27 November of that...

Saud. March 8 – Biela's Comet is first discovered by French astronomer Jacques Leibax Montaigne, but not proven to be a periodic comet until 1826, when...

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...

itself pseudoscientific, is that the explosion was caused by a piece of Biela's Comet from 1883. Ufology – the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs)...