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Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
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Jupiter-family
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Extraterrestrial atmosphere
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List of missions to comets
List of comets visited by spacecraft
Latest
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS)
C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard)
C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
C/2020 F5 (MASTER)
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS)
C/2019 U6 (Lemmon)
2I/Borisov
C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
C/2017 U7
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE)
C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
C/2015 G2 (MASTER)
C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)
C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
Culture and
speculation
Antimatter comet
Comets in fiction
Comet vintages
Lists of comets
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more
)
Periodic
comets
Until 1985
(all)
1P/Halley
2P/Encke
3D/Biela
4P/Faye
5D/Brorsen
6P/d'Arrest
7P/Pons–Winnecke
8P/Tuttle
9P/Tempel
10P/Tempel
11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
12P/Pons–Brooks
13P/Olbers
14P/Wolf
15P/Finlay
16P/Brooks
17P/Holmes
18D/Perrine–Mrkos
19P/Borrelly
20D/Westphal
21P/Giacobini–Zinner
22P/Kopff
23P/Brorsen–Metcalf
24P/Schaumasse
25D/Neujmin
26P/Grigg–Skjellerup
27P/Crommelin
28P/Neujmin
29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
30P/Reinmuth
31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
32P/Comas Solà
33P/Daniel
34D/Gale
35P/Herschel–Rigollet
36P/Whipple
37P/Forbes
38P/Stephan–Oterma
39P/Oterma
40P/Väisälä
41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák
42P/Neujmin
43P/Wolf–Harrington
44P/Reinmuth
45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková
46P/Wirtanen
47P/Ashbrook–Jackson
48P/Johnson
49P/Arend–Rigaux
50P/Arend
51P/Harrington
52P/Harrington–Abell
53P/Van Biesbroeck
54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT
55P/Tempel–Tuttle
56P/Slaughter–Burnham
57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte
58P/Jackson–Neujmin
59P/Kearns–Kwee
60P/Tsuchinshan
61P/Shajn–Schaldach
62P/Tsuchinshan
63P/Wild
64P/Swift–Gehrels
65P/Gunn
66P/du Toit
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
68P/Klemola
69P/Taylor
70P/Kojima
71P/Clark
72P/Denning–Fujikawa
73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
74P/Smirnova–Chernykh
75D/Kohoutek
76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura
77P/Longmore
78P/Gehrels
79P/du Toit–Hartley
80P/Peters–Hartley
81P/Wild
82P/Gehrels
83D/Russell
84P/Giclas
85D/Boethin
86P/Wild
87P/Bus
88P/Howell
89P/Russell
90P/Gehrels
91P/Russell
92P/Sanguin
93P/Lovas
94P/Russell
95P/Chiron
96P/Machholz
97P/Metcalf–Brewington
98P/Takamizawa
99P/Kowal
100P/Hartley
101P/Chernykh
102P/Shoemaker
After 1985
(notable)
103P/Hartley
105P/Singer Brewster
107P/Wilson–Harrington
109P/Swift–Tuttle
111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett
114P/Wiseman–Skiff
128P/Shoemaker–Holt
139P/Väisälä–Oterma
144P/Kushida
147P/Kushida–Muramatsu
153P/Ikeya–Zhang
163P/NEAT
168P/Hergenrother
169P/NEAT
177P/Barnard
178P/Hug–Bell
205P/Giacobini
209P/LINEAR
238P/Read
246P/NEAT
252P/LINEAR
255P/Levy
273P/Pons–Gambart
276P/Vorobjov
289P/Blanpain
311P/PanSTARRS
322P/SOHO
332P/Ikeya–Murakami
354P/LINEAR
362P
P/1997 B1 (Kobayashi)
P/2010 B2 (WISE)
P/2011 NO1 (Elenin)
Comet-like
asteroids
596 Scheila
2060 Chiron
(95P)
4015 Wilson–Harrington
(107P)
7968 Elst–Pizarro
(133P)
165P/LINEAR
166P/NEAT
167P/CINEOS
60558 Echeclus
(174P)
118401 LINEAR
(176P)
238P/Read
259P/Garradd
311P/PanSTARRS
324P/La Sagra
354P/LINEAR
P/2012 F5 (Gibbs)
P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
P/2013 R3 (Catalina-PANSTARRS)
(300163) 2006 VW139
Lost
Recovered
11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR
15P/Finlay
17P/Holmes
27P/Crommelin
54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT
55P/Tempel–Tuttle
57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte
69P/Taylor
72P/Denning–Fujikawa
80P/Peters–Hartley
97P/Metcalf–Brewington
107P/Wilson–Harrington
109P/Swift–Tuttle
113P/Spitaler
122P/de Vico
157P/Tritton
177P/Barnard
205P/Giacobini
206P/Barnard–Boattini
271P/van Houten–Lemmon
273P/Pons–Gambart
289P/Blanpain
Destroyed
3D/Biela
D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker–Levy 9)
Not found
D/1770 L1 (Lexell)
5D/Brorsen
18D/Perrine–Mrkos
20D/Westphal
25D/Neujmin
34D/Gale
75D/Kohoutek
83D/Russell
85D/Boethin
Visited by
spacecraft
21P/Giacobini–Zinner
(1985)
1P/Halley
(1986)
26P/Grigg–Skjellerup
(1992)
19P/Borrelly
(2001)
81P/Wild
(2004)
9P/Tempel
(2005, 2011)
C/2006 P1
(2007)
103P/Hartley
(2010)
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
(2014)
Near-Parabolic
comets
(notable)
Until 1910
C/-43 K1 (Caesar's Comet)
X/1106 C1 (Great Comet of 1106)
C/1577 V1 (Great Comet of 1577)
C/1652 Y1
C/1680 V1 (Great Comet of 1680, Kirsch's Comet, Newton's Comet)
)
C/1702 H1 (Comet of 1702)
C/1729 P1 (Comet of 1729, Comet Sarabat)
C/1743 X1 (Great Comet of 1744, Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux)
C/1760 A1 (Great Comet of 1760)
C/1769 P1 (Great Comet of 1769)
C/1807 R1 (Great Comet of 1807)
C/1811 F1 (Great Comet of 1811)
C/1819 N1 (Great Comet of 1819)
C/1823 Y1 (Great Comet of 1823)
C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet of 1843)
C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet)
C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati)
C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher)
C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861)
C/1865 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1865)
X/1872 X1 (Pogson's Comet)
C/1874 H1 (Comet Coggia)
C/1881 K1 (Comet Tebbutt)
C/1882 R1 (Great Comet of 1882)
C/1887 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1887)
C/1890 V1 (Comet Zona)
C/1901 G1 (Great Comet of 1901)
C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910)
After 1910
C/1911 O1 (Brooks)
C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky)
C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany)
C/1931 P1 (Ryves)
C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos)
[
de
]
C/1947 X1 (Southern Comet)
[
de
]
C/1948 V1 (Eclipse)
C/1956 R1 (Arend–Roland)
C/1957 P1 (Mrkos)
C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard)
[
de
]
C/1961 R1 (Humason)
C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)
[
de
]
C/1963 A1 (Ikeya)
[
de
]
C/1963 R1 (Pereyra)
C/1964 N1 (Ikeya)
[
fr
]
C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki)
C/1969 T1 (Tago-Sato-Kosaka)
[
de
]
C/1969 Y1 (Bennett)
C/1970 K1 (White–Ortiz–Bolelli)
C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek)
C/1975 V1 (West)
C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
C/1983 H1 (IRAS–Araki–Alcock)
C/1989 W1 (Aarseth-Brewington)
C/1989 X1 (Austin)
C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko–George)
C/1990 K1 (Levy)
[
fr
]
C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch–Rabinowitz)
C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell)
C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp)
C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
C/1997 L1 (Zhu–Balam)
C/1998 H1 (Stonehouse)
C/1998 J1 (SOHO)
C/1999 F1 (Catalina)
C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)
C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)
C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
C/2004 F4 (Bradfield)
[
de
]
C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)
C/2006 A1 (Pojmański)
C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
C/2007 N3 (Lulin)
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
C/2007 W1 (Boattini)
C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN)
C/2009 R1 (McNaught)
C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)
C/2012 S1 (ISON)
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)
C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)
C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
1I/2017 U1 ʻOumuamua
C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
2I/Borisov
C/2019 U6 (Lemmon)
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
After 1910
(by name)
Aarseth-Brewington
Arend–Roland
Austin
Beljawsky
Bennett
Boattini
Borisov
Bowell
Bradfield
[
de
]
Brooks
Catalina
C/1999 F1
C/2013 US10
de Kock–Paraskevopoulos
[
de
]
Eclipse
Elenin
Hale-Bopp
Humason
Hyakutake
Ikeya
C/1963 A1
[
de
]
C/1964 N1
[
fr
]
Ikeya-Seki
IRAS–Araki–Alcock
ISON
Iwamoto
Jacques
Johnson
Kohoutek
Lemmon
C/2012 F6
C/2018 C2
C/2019 U6
Leonard
Levy
[
fr
]
LINEAR
C/1999 S4
C/2000 WM1
C/2001 A2
C/2002 T7
LONEOS
C/2001 OG108
C/2007 F1
Lovejoy
C/2007 E2
C/2011 W3
C/2013 R1
C/2014 Q2
Lulin
Machholz
McNaught
C/2006 P1
C/2009 R1
McNaught–Russell
Mrkos
NEAT
C/2001 Q4
C/2002 V1
NEOWISE
Oukaimeden
ʻOumuamua
Pan-STARRS
C/2011 L4
C/2012 K1
311P/PanSTARRS
C/2014 Q1
C/2015 ER61
C/2017 K2
Pereyra
Pojmański
Ryves
Seki–Lines
[
de
]
Siding Spring
C/2007 Q3
C/2013 A1
Skjellerup–Maristany
Skorichenko–George
SOHO
Southern
[
de
]
Spacewatch–Rabinowitz
Stonehouse
SWAN
C/2006 M4
C/2012 E2
C/2020 F8
Tago-Sato-Kosaka
[
de
]
West
White–Ortiz–Bolelli
Wilson–Hubbard
[
de
]
Yi–SWAN
Zhu–Balam
ZTF
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