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/2009 O4 (Hill)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.56379 AU · Sun
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C/2009 O2 (Catalina)
Comet
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278.113 AU · Sun
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C/2009 K5 (McNaught)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.4224 AU · Sun
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C/2009 K4 (Gibbs)
Comet
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41.3331 AU · Sun
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C/2009 K3 (Beshore)
Parabolic comet
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2.86903 AU · Sun
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C/2009 K2 (Catalina)
Comet
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1461.47 AU · Sun
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C/2009 G1 (STEREO)
Comet
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486.209 AU · Sun
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C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN)
Comet
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512.604 AU · Sun
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C/2009 F5 (McNaught)
Comet
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80.1661 AU · Sun
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C/2009 F4 (McNaught)
Hyperbolic comet
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5.45487 AU · Sun
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C/2009 F2 (McNaught)
Comet
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346.138 AU · Sun
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C/2009 F1 (Larson)
Comet
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105.973 AU · Sun
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C/2009 E1 (Itagaki)
Comet
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40.1762 AU · Sun
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C/2009 B2 (LINEAR)
Comet
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41.7744 AU · Sun
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C/2008 X3 (LINEAR)
Comet
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43.7632 AU · Sun
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C/2008 T2 (Cardinal)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.20221 AU · Sun
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C/2008 S3 (Boattini)
Hyperbolic comet
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8.01792 AU · Sun
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C/2008 R3 (LINEAR)
Halley-type comet
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18.4182 AU · Sun
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C/2008 Q3 (Garradd)
Comet
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8893.45 AU · Sun
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C/2008 Q1 (Maticic)
Comet
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593.83 AU · Sun
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