Comets
4076 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 · 847COMET · 733HYPERBOLIC COMET · 520HALLEY-TYPE COMET · 111ENCKE-TYPE COMET · 80CHIRON-TYPE COMET · 22
C/2012 K8 (Lemmon)
Hyperbolic comet
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6.46301 AU · Sun
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C/2012 KA51 (Palomar)
Comet
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835.133 AU · Sun
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C/2012 L1 (LINEAR)
Comet
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767.674 AU · Sun
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C/2012 L2 (LINEAR)
Comet
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565.74 AU · Sun
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C/2012 L3 (LINEAR)
Comet
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330.681 AU · Sun
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C/2012 LP26 (Palomar)
Jupiter-family comet
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9074.78 AU · Sun
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C/2012 OP (Siding Spring)
Comet
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1054.51 AU · Sun
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C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski)
Jupiter-family comet
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26.1308 AU · Sun
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C/2012 S1 (ISON)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.0124667 AU · Sun
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C/2012 S3 (PANSTARRS)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.30807 AU · Sun
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C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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241 498 AU · Sun
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C/2012 T4 (McNaught)
Comet
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222.001 AU · Sun
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C/2012 T5 (Bressi)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.322826 AU · Sun
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C/2012 T6 (Kowalski)
Halley-type comet
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14.3543 AU · Sun
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C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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12 097.7 AU · Sun
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C/2012 V1 (PANSTARRS)
Comet
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3443.24 AU · Sun
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C/2012 V2 (LINEAR)
Comet
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612.255 AU · Sun
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C/2012 X1 (LINEAR)
Comet
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153.33 AU · Sun
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C/2012 X2 (PANSTARRS)
Jupiter-family comet
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20.6889 AU · Sun
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C/2012 Y1 (LINEAR)
Comet
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37.9444 AU · Sun
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