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
516P/PANSTARRS
Encke-type comet
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3.637 AU · Sun
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51P/Harrington
Jupiter-family comet
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3.71 AU · Sun
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51P/Harrington-A
Jupiter-family comet
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3.581 AU · Sun
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51P/Harrington-D
Jupiter-family comet
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3.709 AU · Sun
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52P/Harrington-Abell
Jupiter-family comet
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3.859 AU · Sun
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53P/Van Biesbroeck
Jupiter-family comet
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5.405 AU · Sun
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54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT
Jupiter-family comet
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3.791 AU · Sun
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55P/Tempel-Tuttle
Halley-type comet
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10.34 AU · Sun
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56P/Slaughter-Burnham
Jupiter-family comet
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5.086 AU · Sun
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57P/duToit-Neujmin-Delporte
Jupiter-family comet
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3.45 AU · Sun
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57P/duToit-Neujmin-Delporte-A
Jupiter-family comet
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3.452 AU · Sun
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58P/Jackson-Neujmin
Jupiter-family comet
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4.09 AU · Sun
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59P/Kearns-Kwee
Jupiter-family comet
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4.491 AU · Sun
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5D/Brorsen
Jupiter-family comet
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3.101 AU · Sun
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60P/Tsuchinshan 2
Jupiter-family comet
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3.51 AU · Sun
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61P/Shajn-Schaldach
Jupiter-family comet
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3.692 AU · Sun
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62P/Tsuchinshan 1
Jupiter-family comet
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3.438 AU · Sun
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63P/Wild 1
Jupiter-family comet
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5.596 AU · Sun
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64P/Swift-Gehrels
Jupiter-family comet
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4.456 AU · Sun
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65P/Gunn
Jupiter-family comet
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3.884 AU · Sun
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