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/1978 C1 (Bradfield)
Parabolic comet
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0.437 AU · Sun
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C/1978 G2 (McNaught-Tritton)
Hyperbolic comet
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6.284 AU · Sun
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C/1978 H1 (Meier)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.137 AU · Sun
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C/1978 R3 (Machholz)
Hyperbolic comet
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1.772 AU · Sun
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C/1978 T1 (Seargent)
Comet
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221.9 AU · Sun
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C/1978 T3 (Bradfield)
Comet
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0.432 AU · Sun
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C/1979 M1 (Bradfield)
Hyperbolic comet
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0.413 AU · Sun
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C/1979 M3 (Torres)
Hyperbolic comet
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4.687 AU · Sun
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C/1979 Q1 (SOLWIND)
Parabolic comet
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0.005 AU · Sun
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C/1979 S1 (Meier)
Comet
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53.03 AU · Sun
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C/1979 Y1 (Bradfield)
Comet
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45.59 AU · Sun
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C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
Hyperbolic comet
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3.364 AU · Sun
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C/1980 L1 (Torres)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.584 AU · Sun
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C/1980 O1 (Cernis-Petrauskas)
Parabolic comet
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0.523 AU · Sun
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C/1980 R1 (Russell)
Hyperbolic comet
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2.112 AU · Sun
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C/1980 V1 (Meier)
Comet
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281.3 AU · Sun
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C/1980 Y1 (Bradfield)
Comet
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946.1 AU · Sun
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C/1980 Y2 (Panther)
Comet
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1234 AU · Sun
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C/1981 B1 (SOLWIND)
Parabolic comet
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0.008 AU · Sun
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C/1981 G1 (Elias)
Hyperbolic comet
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4.743 AU · Sun
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