Jupiter-family comets

847 TRACKED

Ice and dust on long orbits, growing a tail only when the Sun gets close enough to boil them.

RANKED LISTS

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) — 68.5 km

ALL CLASSES PARABOLIC COMET · 1763 JUPITER-FAMILY COMET · 847 COMET · 733 HYPERBOLIC COMET · 520 HALLEY-TYPE COMET · 111 ENCKE-TYPE COMET · 80 CHIRON-TYPE COMET · 22

C/2002 A1 (LINEAR)

Jupiter-family comet

17.1797 AU · Sun

C/2002 A2 (LINEAR)

Jupiter-family comet

17.2108 AU · Sun

C/2002 P1 (NEAT)

Jupiter-family comet

413.969 AU · Sun

C/2002 R5 (SOHO)

Jupiter-family comet

3.21612 AU · Sun

C/2003 E1 (NEAT)

Jupiter-family comet

13.7257 AU · Sun

C/2004 C1 (Larsen)

Jupiter-family comet

11.5683 AU · Sun

C/2004 P1 (NEAT)

Jupiter-family comet

8079.7 AU · Sun

C/2005 W2 (Christensen)

Jupiter-family comet

18.9786 AU · Sun

C/2006 F2 (Christensen)

Jupiter-family comet

12.3238 AU · Sun

C/2006 S5 (Hill)

Jupiter-family comet

97.4286 AU · Sun

C/2006 U7 (Gibbs)

Jupiter-family comet

11.9826 AU · Sun

C/2007 D1 (LINEAR)

Jupiter-family comet

171 367 AU · Sun

C/2007 S2 (Lemmon)

Jupiter-family comet

12.5466 AU · Sun

C/2008 E1 (Catalina)

Jupiter-family comet

10.6861 AU · Sun

C/2009 U5 (Grauer)

Jupiter-family comet

10 580.7 AU · Sun

C/2010 E5 (Scotti)

Jupiter-family comet

24.7261 AU · Sun

C/2010 F3 (Scotti)

Jupiter-family comet

62.7961 AU · Sun

C/2011 KP36 (Spacewatch)

Jupiter-family comet

38.4114 AU · Sun

C/2011 Y3 (Boattini)

Jupiter-family comet

11.8537 AU · Sun

C/2012 BJ98 (Lemmon)

Jupiter-family comet

17.0682 AU · Sun