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/2012 E3 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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221.4 AU · Sun
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C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.007 AU · Sun
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C/2012 E1 (Hill)
Comet
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3776 AU · Sun
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C/2012 CH17 (MOSS)
Comet
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1.296 AU · Sun
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C/2012 C2 (Bruenjes)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.802 AU · Sun
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C/2012 C1 (McNaught)
Comet
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1275 AU · Sun
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C/2012 BJ98 (Lemmon)
Jupiter-family comet
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17.07 AU · Sun
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C/2012 B3 (La Sagra)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.537 AU · Sun
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C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)
Comet
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979.3 AU · Sun
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C/2012 A1 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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7.604 AU · Sun
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C/2011 Y3 (Boattini)
Jupiter-family comet
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11.85 AU · Sun
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C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
Comet
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78.68 AU · Sun
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C/2011 UF305 (LINEAR)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.138 AU · Sun
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C/2011 U3 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.071 AU · Sun
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C/2011 S2 (Kowalski)
Halley-type comet
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16.31 AU · Sun
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C/2011 R1 (McNaught)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.08 AU · Sun
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C/2011 Q4 (SWAN)
Comet
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43.04 AU · Sun
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C/2011 Q2 (McNaught)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.35 AU · Sun
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C/2011 Q1 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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3248 AU · Sun
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C/2011 P2 (PANSTARRS)
Chiron-type comet
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9.756 AU · Sun
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