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    Comet Encke /ˈɛŋki/, or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This...
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    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 the astronomers...
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    astronomer Ľubor Kresák suggested that the body was a fragment of Comet Encke, a periodic comet with a period of just over three years that stays entirely within...
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    the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. Encke was born in Hamburg...
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  • the comet Encke. The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke...
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  • has speculated that the comet was Comet Encke, although this is not widely accepted. Based on the ancient Greek belief that comets were the source of celestial...
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  • Encke (crater), a lunar crater Encke Division, a dark gap in the rings of Saturn Comet Encke, a short-period comet Encke (horse) (2009–2014), a thoroughbred...
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    was on the 20th of April 2007 when the ion tail of comet Encke was completely severed as the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event...
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    impact of a comet in Earth's history has been conclusively confirmed, the Tunguska event may have been caused by a fragment of Comet Encke. Comets are commonly...
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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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  • such as 2P/Encke and 27P/Crommelin they were named for a person who calculated their orbits (the orbit computers). The long-term orbits of comets can be difficult...
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  • suggested in 1978 that the Tunguska event was a fragment of the periodic comet Encke. The asteroid 1849 Kresák was named in his honor. His wife Margita Kresáková...
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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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    years. At the time it was only the third comet known to be periodic, after comets Halley and Encke. The comet was named after Biela, although there was...
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  • 2P may refer to: 2P/Encke, official designation of Comet Encke 2p, an arm of Chromosome 2 (human) 2p, an atomic orbital for electrons Two-photon absorption...
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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, named...
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    Theory". The Origin of Comets. Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-034859-9. Whipple, F (1950). "A Comet Model. I: the Acceleration of Comet Encke". Astrophysical Journal...
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    CONTOUR (redirect from COmet Nucleus TOUR)
    The two comets scheduled to be visited were Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and the third target was d'Arrest. It was hoped that a new comet would have...
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    calculating the orbit of Comet Encke, taking into account the perturbations of various planets. He used observations of Comet Encke to try estimate the mass...
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    designated 27P/Crommelin). This is similar to the case of Comet Encke, where the periodic comet is named after the person who determined the orbit rather...
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    Caroline Herschel (category Discoverers of comets)
    unquestioned priority as discoverer of five of the comets and rediscovered Comet Encke in 1795. Five of her comets were published in Philosophical Transactions...
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  • by the Spacewatch survey on 8 October 2004, it may be a fragment of Comet Encke and is the source of the Northern Taurids meteor shower seen annually...
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    Comet, other periodic comets have been discovered through the use of the telescope. The second comet found to have a periodic orbit was Encke's Comet...
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  • Comet dust refers to cosmic dust that originates from a comet. Comet dust can provide clues to comets' origin. When the Earth passes through a comet dust...
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    of the dust at Earth's orbit. They studied the dust ejected in 1866 by comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle before the anticipated Leonid shower return of 1898 and...
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    surface rock struck by micrometeorite impacts including presently from Comet Encke. In 2008, magnesium was discovered by MESSENGER. Studies indicate that...
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    V1" (1681-03-19 last obs (Encke: 125-day data arc)). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 26 July 2011. "JPL Dastcom Comet Orbital Elements". Archived...
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    Jean-Louis Pons (category Discoverers of comets)
    supported some famous comet recoveries of the 19th century, including Encke's Comet and Crommelin's Comet. However, most of the comets he discovered had near-parabolic...
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    became interested in astronomy and comets in particular, observing the return of what would later be named Comet Encke. He later made a very complete calculation...
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    in comet tails have been observed before—most famously in 2007, when NASA's STEREO spacecraft watched a coronal mass ejection crash into Comet Encke. Encke...
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