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/1947 X1-A (Southern comet)
Comet
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700.3 AU · Sun
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C/1947 X1-B (Southern comet)
Comet
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296.6 AU · Sun
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C/1947 Y1 (Mrkos)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.5 AU · Sun
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C/1948 E1 (Pajdusakova-Mrkos)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.107 AU · Sun
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C/1948 L1 (Honda-Bernasconi)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.207 AU · Sun
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C/1948 N1 (Wirtanen)
Comet
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4659 AU · Sun
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C/1948 R1 (Johnson)
Parabolic comet
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4.708 AU · Sun
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C/1948 T1 (Wirtanen)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.268 AU · Sun
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C/1948 V1 (Eclipse comet)
Comet
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1575 AU · Sun
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C/1948 W1 (Bester)
Comet
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509.2 AU · Sun
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C/1949 K1 (Johnson)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.553 AU · Sun
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C/1949 N1 (Bappu-Bok-Newkirk)
Comet
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1690 AU · Sun
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C/1950 K1 (Minkowski)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.572 AU · Sun
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C/1951 C1 (Pajdusakova)
Parabolic comet
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0.719 AU · Sun
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C/1951 G1 (Groeneveld)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.625 AU · Sun
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C/1951 G2 (Groeneveld-Palomar)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.639 AU · Sun
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C/1951 P1 (Wilson-Harrington)
Comet
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3293 AU · Sun
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C/1952 H1 (Mrkos)
Comet
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77.5 AU · Sun
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C/1952 M1 (Peltier)
Comet
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4848 AU · Sun
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C/1952 Q1 (Harrington)
Comet
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411.4 AU · Sun
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