Comets
4072 TRACKED
Ice and dust on long orbits, growing a tail only when the Sun gets close enough to boil them.
RANKED LISTS
ALL CLASSESPARABOLIC COMET · 1763JUPITER-FAMILY COMET · 846COMET · 731HYPERBOLIC COMET · 520HALLEY-TYPE COMET · 111ENCKE-TYPE COMET · 79CHIRON-TYPE COMET · 22
284P/McNaught
Jupiter-family comet
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3.673 AU · Sun
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283P/Spacewatch
Jupiter-family comet
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4.134 AU · Sun
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281P/MOSS
Jupiter-family comet
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4.856 AU · Sun
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280P/Larsen
Jupiter-family comet
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4.513 AU · Sun
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27P/Crommelin
Halley-type comet
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9.093 AU · Sun
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279P/La Sagra
Jupiter-family comet
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3.575 AU · Sun
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278P/McNaught
Jupiter-family comet
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3.7 AU · Sun
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277P/LINEAR
Jupiter-family comet
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3.858 AU · Sun
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276P/Vorobjov
Jupiter-family comet
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5.326 AU · Sun
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275P/Hermann
Jupiter-family comet
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5.765 AU · Sun
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274P/Tombaugh-Tenagra
Jupiter-family comet
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4.364 AU · Sun
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273P/Pons-Gambart
Halley-type comet
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32.83 AU · Sun
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272P/NEAT
Jupiter-family comet
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4.446 AU · Sun
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271P/van Houten-Lemmon
Jupiter-family comet
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6.974 AU · Sun
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270P/Gehrels
Jupiter-family comet
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6.752 AU · Sun
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26P/Grigg-Skjellerup
Jupiter-family comet
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3.024 AU · Sun
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269P/Jedicke
Jupiter-family comet
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7.212 AU · Sun
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268P/Bernardi
Jupiter-family comet
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4.562 AU · Sun
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267P/LONEOS
Jupiter-family comet
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3.29 AU · Sun
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266P/Christensen
Encke-type comet
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3.532 AU · Sun
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