Comets

4076 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/2001 U9 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.005 AU · Sun

C/2001 V1 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0075 AU · Sun

C/2001 V2 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0055 AU · Sun

C/2001 V3 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0053 AU · Sun

C/2001 V4 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0051 AU · Sun

C/2001 V5 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0053 AU · Sun

C/2001 V6 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0374 AU · Sun

C/2001 W1 (LINEAR)

2236.51 AU · Sun

C/2001 W2 (BATTERS)

Halley-type comet

17.9286 AU · Sun

C/2001 W3 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0059 AU · Sun

C/2001 W4 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0056 AU · Sun

C/2001 X10 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.036 AU · Sun

C/2001 X1 (LINEAR)

573.976 AU · Sun

C/2001 X4 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0049 AU · Sun

C/2001 X5 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0059 AU · Sun

C/2001 X6 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0052 AU · Sun

C/2001 X7 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0076 AU · Sun

C/2001 X8 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0371 AU · Sun

C/2001 X9 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0076 AU · Sun

C/2001 Y2 (SOHO)

Parabolic comet

0.0054 AU · Sun