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
C/2017 K5 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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7.68 AU · Sun
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C/2017 K4 (ATLAS)
Jupiter-family comet
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28.13 AU · Sun
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C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.797 AU · Sun
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C/2017 K1 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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7.286 AU · Sun
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C/2017 G3 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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289.7 AU · Sun
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C/2017 F2 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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6.928 AU · Sun
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C/2017 F1 (Lemmon)
Hyperbolic comet
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4.5 AU · Sun
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C/2017 E5 (Lemmon)
Comet
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409 AU · Sun
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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)
Comet
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475.7 AU · Sun
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C/2017 E3 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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5.927 AU · Sun
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C/2017 E2 (Tsuchinshan)
Halley-type comet
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21.57 AU · Sun
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C/2017 E1 (Borisov)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.901 AU · Sun
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C/2017 D5 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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112.7 AU · Sun
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C/2017 D3 (ATLAS)
Hyperbolic comet
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4.971 AU · Sun
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C/2017 D2 (Barros)
Comet
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1380 AU · Sun
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C/2017 C2 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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98.46 AU · Sun
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C/2017 C1 (NEOWISE)
Halley-type comet
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20.8 AU · Sun
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C/2017 B3 (LINEAR)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.921 AU · Sun
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C/2017 AB5 (PANSTARRS)
Chiron-type comet
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127 600 AU · Sun
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C/2017 A3 (Elenin)
Comet
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43.35 AU · Sun
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