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
255P/Levy
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.025 AU · Sun
—
—
256P/LINEAR
Jupiter-family comet
—
4.631 AU · Sun
—
—
257P/Catalina
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.754 AU · Sun
—
—
258P/PANSTARRS
Jupiter-family comet
—
4.405 AU · Sun
—
—
259P/Garradd
Encke-type comet
—
2.728 AU · Sun
—
—
25D/Neujmin 2
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.089 AU · Sun
—
—
260P/McNaught
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.672 AU · Sun
—
—
261P/Larson
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.525 AU · Sun
—
—
262P/McNaught-Russell
Jupiter-family comet
—
6.935 AU · Sun
—
—
263P/Gibbs
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.06 AU · Sun
—
—
264P/Larsen
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.893 AU · Sun
—
—
265P/LINEAR
Jupiter-family comet
—
4.253 AU · Sun
—
—
266P/Christensen
Encke-type comet
—
3.532 AU · Sun
—
—
267P/LONEOS
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.29 AU · Sun
—
—
268P/Bernardi
Jupiter-family comet
—
4.562 AU · Sun
—
—
269P/Jedicke
Jupiter-family comet
—
7.212 AU · Sun
—
—
26P/Grigg-Skjellerup
Jupiter-family comet
—
3.024 AU · Sun
—
—
270P/Gehrels
Jupiter-family comet
—
6.752 AU · Sun
—
—
271P/van Houten-Lemmon
Jupiter-family comet
—
6.974 AU · Sun
—
—
272P/NEAT
Jupiter-family comet
—
4.446 AU · Sun
—
—