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
142P/Ge-Wang
Jupiter-family comet
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4.966 AU · Sun
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141P/Machholz 2-I
Jupiter-family comet
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3.066 AU · Sun
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141P/Machholz 2-H
Jupiter-family comet
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3.034 AU · Sun
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141P/Machholz 2-D
Jupiter-family comet
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3.009 AU · Sun
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141P/Machholz 2-A
Jupiter-family comet
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3.01 AU · Sun
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141P/Machholz 2
Jupiter-family comet
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3.055 AU · Sun
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140P/Bowell-Skiff
Jupiter-family comet
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6.397 AU · Sun
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13P/Olbers
Halley-type comet
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16.69 AU · Sun
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139P/Vaisala-Oterma
Jupiter-family comet
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4.523 AU · Sun
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138P/Shoemaker-Levy 7
Jupiter-family comet
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3.624 AU · Sun
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137P/Shoemaker-Levy 2
Jupiter-family comet
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4.518 AU · Sun
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136P/Mueller 3
Jupiter-family comet
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4.202 AU · Sun
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135P/Shoemaker-Levy 8
Jupiter-family comet
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3.828 AU · Sun
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134P/Kowal-Vavrova
Jupiter-family comet
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6.229 AU · Sun
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132P/Helin-Roman-Alu 2
Jupiter-family comet
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3.886 AU · Sun
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131P/Mueller 2
Jupiter-family comet
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3.679 AU · Sun
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130P/McNaught-Hughes
Jupiter-family comet
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3.382 AU · Sun
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12P/Pons-Brooks
Halley-type comet
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17.18 AU · Sun
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129P/Shoemaker-Levy 3
Encke-type comet
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4.304 AU · Sun
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128P/Shoemaker-Holt 1-B
Jupiter-family comet
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4.489 AU · Sun
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