Comets

• Comet data [343k ascii text] - data and elements of comets up to 1994 and then-future apparitions of periodic comets up to 2000
• Comet Catalog (NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) Small Body Node (SBN)) [local archival copy as of June 2022]
• Comet Space Missions
• Famous individual comets:
  • Comet 1P/Halley
  • Comet 1993e (D/1993 F2) Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9)
  • Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp
  • Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake
• Other notable comets:
  • Comet 2P/Encke
  • Comet 3D/Biela
  • Comet 1973f (C/1973 E1, 1973 XII) Kohoutek
  • Comet 1983d (1883 VII, C/1983 H1) Iras-Araki-Alcock (IAA): IRAS image and caption
  • Comet 1965f Ikeya-Seki (C/1965 S1): Comet Ikeya-Seki, captured on film by Dr Roger Lynds in 1966. (Roger Lynds/AURA/NOAO/NSF) - C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) by Gary Kronk
  • Comet C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang: Gary Kronk's page, Armagh Observatory IZ page.
• Lost Comets:
  • Seen several times: 3D/Biela, 5D/Brorsen, 18D/Perrine-Mrkos, 20D/Westphal, 25D/Neujmin, 34D/Gale, 75D/Kohoutek, 83D/Russell
  • Seen one-time only: D/1766 G1 (Helfenzrieder), D/1770 L1 (Lexell), D/1884 O1 (Barnard 1), D/1886 K1 (Brooks 1), D/1894 F1 (Denning), D/1895 Q1 (Swift), D/1918 W1 (Schorr), D/1921 H1 (Dubiago), D/1952 B1 (Harrington-Wilson), D/1977 C1 (Skiff-Kosai), D/1978 R1 (Haneda-Campos), D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker-Levy 9).
  • Recovered: D/1819 W1 = 289P/Blanpain.
• The Kreutz Group of sun-grazing comets
• Special stuff:
  • Comet C/2001 A2 LINEAR
  • Comet C/2000 WM1 LINEAR

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