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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 ...
Comet E3 will be found between the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper in the final nights of January leading up to its closest encounter with the Earth on Feb. 1. It will appear stationary in the ...
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]
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.
Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz sungrazer. It was discovered in November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . The comet's perihelion took it through the Sun's corona on 16 December 2011, after which it emerged intact, though greatly impacted by the event.
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 ...
Lists of comets. Coin showing Caesar's Comet as a star with eight rays, tail upward. Non-periodic comets are seen only once. They are usually on near- parabolic orbits that will not return to the vicinity of the Sun for thousands of years, if ever. Periodic comets usually have elongated elliptical orbits, and usually return to the vicinity of ...