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Comet. Comet is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group [ 2] that focuses on science fiction, supernatural, horror, adventure and fantasy programming. The network was originally launched on October 31, 2015 as a joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
A zoomed-in image of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) captured on Jan. 23, 2023. (Michael Borland) Celestial sleuths at th Comet E3 to make closest approach to Earth tonight
62P/Tsuchinshan. 62P/Tsuchinshan, also known as Tsuchinshan 1, is a periodic comet first discovered January 1, 1965 at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanking. [6] It last came to perihelion on 25 December 2023 at around apparent magnitude 8, [2] and was then 0.53 AU (79 million km) from Earth and 110 degrees from the Sun. [4]
2.1 (in 1986) [ 14] 28.2 (in 2003) [ 15] Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, [ 16] appearing every 72–80 years. [ 17] It last appeared in the inner parts of the Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid-2061. Officially designated 1P/Halley, it is also commonly ...
Luboš Kohoutek ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈkoɦou̯tɛk]; 29 January 1935 – 30 December 2023) was a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, including Comet Kohoutek which was visible to the naked eye in 1973. [ 2][ 3] He also discovered a large number of planetary nebulae. [ 4]
List of periodic comets. 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 a single perihelion passage [ 1] (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang ). "Periodic comet" is also sometimes used to mean any comet with a periodic orbit, even if greater than 200 years.
The character was created partly due to wide public interest in the passing of Halley's Comet. [1] It was the first comics work of Bill Mumy, who had achieved fame as a child actor, playing Will Robinson in the science fiction series Lost in Space, and his friend Miguel Ferrer - a fellow actor soon to have a major career breakthrough due to a prominent role in RoboCop. [2]
32P/Comas Solà was discovered November 5, 1926, by Josep Comas Solà. As part of his work on asteroids for the Fabra Observatory ( Barcelona ), he was taking photographs with a 6-inch (150 mm) telescope. The comet's past orbital evolution became a point of interest as several astronomers suggested early on that the comet might be a return of ...