Comets

4076 TRACKED

Ice and dust on long orbits, growing a tail only when the Sun gets close enough to boil them.

RANKED LISTS

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) — 68.5 km

ALL CLASSES PARABOLIC COMET · 1763 JUPITER-FAMILY COMET · 847 COMET · 733 HYPERBOLIC COMET · 520 HALLEY-TYPE COMET · 111 ENCKE-TYPE COMET · 80 CHIRON-TYPE COMET · 22

C/2002 U4 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0051 AU · Sun

C/2002 U3 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0053 AU · Sun

C/2002 U2 (LINEAR)

Hyperbolic comet

1.20863 AU · Sun

C/2002 U1 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0059 AU · Sun

C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)

Hyperbolic comet

0.614546 AU · Sun

C/2002 T3 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0077 AU · Sun

C/2002 T2 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0369 AU · Sun

C/2002 S9 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0049 AU · Sun

C/2002 S8 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0053 AU · Sun

C/2002 S6 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.005 AU · Sun

C/2002 S5 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0467 AU · Sun

C/2002 S4 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0484 AU · Sun

C/2002 S3 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0062 AU · Sun

C/2002 S2 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0053 AU · Sun

C/2002 S11 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0482 AU · Sun

C/2002 S10 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0052 AU · Sun

C/2002 R8 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0343 AU · Sun

C/2002 R7 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0052 AU · Sun

C/2002 R6 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0051 AU · Sun

C/2002 R5 (SOHO)

Jupiter-family comet

3.21612 AU · Sun