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/2016 E1 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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8.177 AU · Sun
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C/2016 C2 (NEOWISE)
Comet
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64.02 AU · Sun
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C/2016 C1 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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8.463 AU · Sun
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C/2016 B1 (NEOWISE)
Comet
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421.6 AU · Sun
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C/2016 A8 (LINEAR)
Comet
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35.06 AU · Sun
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C/2016 A6 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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256.7 AU · Sun
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C/2016 A5 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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1093 AU · Sun
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C/2016 A1 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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5.328 AU · Sun
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C/2015 YG1 (NEOWISE)
Halley-type comet
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17.17 AU · Sun
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C/2015 Y1 (LINEAR)
Comet
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291.8 AU · Sun
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C/2015 XY1 (Lemmon)
Hyperbolic comet
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7.928 AU · Sun
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C/2015 X8 (NEOWISE)
Halley-type comet
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19.55 AU · Sun
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C/2015 X7 (ATLAS)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.685 AU · Sun
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C/2015 X5 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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6.802 AU · Sun
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C/2015 X4 (Elenin)
Jupiter-family comet
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18.13 AU · Sun
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C/2015 X2 (Catalina)
Halley-type comet
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15.75 AU · Sun
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C/2015 WZ (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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193.2 AU · Sun
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C/2015 W1 (Gibbs)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.232 AU · Sun
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C/2015 VL62 (Lemmon-Yeung-PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.72 AU · Sun
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C/2015 V4 (PANSTARRS)
Halley-type comet
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18.55 AU · Sun
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