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...

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...

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)...

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...

It was the closest approach up to that time of any comet in the last 200 years; only Lexell's Comet (1770) and 55P/Tempel–Tuttle (1366) are thought to...

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...

of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691. Lexell's Comet: -- Comet ("D/1770 L1") is named after Lexell. National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)"...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

coincided with his observations of the transits of Venus and Mercury and Lexell's Comet. In 1772 he received an honorary degree from Dartmouth College. In 1781...

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...

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...

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...

P/1999 J6 (SOHO) is a small comet, notable for being among those that made a close approach to the Earth. It was first observed by the space-based Solar...

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...

his new object as a comet, other astronomers had already begun to suspect otherwise. Finnish-Swedish astronomer Anders Johan Lexell, working in Russia...

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...