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Comet
A comet is an icy,
small Solar System
body that, when
passing close to the
Sun, warms and
begins to release gases,
a process called
outgassing. This
produces a visible
atmosphere or coma,
and sometimes also a
tail. These phenomena
are due to the effects
of solar radiation and
the solar wind acting
upon the nucleus of
the comet. Comet
nuclei range from a
few hundred meters to
tens of kilometers
across and are
composed of loose
collections of ice, dust,
and small rocky
particles. The coma
may be up to 15 times
Earth's diameter,
while the tail may Comets – nucleus, coma and tail:
stretch beyond one
astronomical unit. If Top: 9P/Tempel (impactor collision: Deep Impact), and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (Rosetta)
sufficiently bright, a
Middle: 17P/Holmes and its blue ionized tail, and 81P/Wild (Wild 2) visited by Stardust
comet may be seen
from Earth without the Bottom: Hale–Bopp seen from Earth in 1997, and C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) imaged from Earth orbit
aid of a telescope and
may subtend an arc of
30° (60 Moons) across the sky. Comets have been observed and recorded since ancient times by many cultures.
Comets usually have highly eccentric elliptical orbits, and they have a wide range of orbital periods, ranging from several years
to potentially several millions of years. Short-period comets originate in the Kuiper belt or its associated scattered disc, which
lie beyond the orbit of Neptune. Long-period comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a spherical cloud of icy bodies
extending from outside the Kuiper belt to halfway to the nearest star.[1] Long-period comets are set in motion towards the Sun
from the Oort cloud by gravitational perturbations caused by passing stars and the galactic tide. Hyperbolic comets may pass
once through the inner Solar System before being flung to interstellar space. The appearance of a comet is called an apparition.
Comets are distinguished from asteroids by the presence of an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere surrounding
their central nucleus. This atmosphere has parts termed the coma (the central part immediately surrounding the nucleus) and
the tail (a typically linear section consisting of dust or gas blown out from the coma by the Sun's light pressure or outstreaming
solar wind plasma). However, extinct comets that have passed close to the Sun many times have lost nearly all of their volatile
ices and dust and may come to resemble small asteroids.[2] Asteroids are thought to have a different origin from comets, having
formed inside the orbit of Jupiter rather than in the outer Solar System.[3][4] The discovery of main-belt comets and active
centaur minor planets has blurred the distinction between asteroids and comets. In the early 21st century, the discovery of
some minor bodies with long-period comet orbits, but characteristics of inner solar system asteroids, were called Manx comets.
They are still classified as comets, such as C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS).[5] 27 Manx comets were found from 2013 to 2017.[6]
As of July 2019 there are 6,619 known comets,[7] a number that is steadily increasing as more are discovered. However, this
represents only a tiny fraction of the total potential comet population, as the reservoir of comet-like bodies in the outer Solar
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System (in the Oort cloud) is estimated to be one trillion.[8][9] Roughly one comet per year is visible to the naked eye, though
many of those are faint and unspectacular.[10] Particularly bright examples are called "great comets". Comets have been visited
by unmanned probes such as the European Space Agency's Rosetta, which became the first to land a robotic spacecraft on a
comet,[11] and NASA's Deep Impact, which blasted a crater on Comet Tempel 1 to study its interior.
Contents
Etymology
Physical characteristics
Nucleus
Coma
Bow shock
Tails
Jets
Orbital characteristics
Short period
Long period
Oort cloud and Hills cloud
Exocomets
Effects of comets
Connection to meteor showers
Comets and impact on life
Fear of comets
Fate of comets
Departure (ejection) from Solar System
Volatiles exhausted
Breakup and collisions
Nomenclature
History of study
Early observations and thought
Orbital studies
Studies of physical characteristics
Spacecraft missions
Great comets
Sungrazing comets
Unusual comets
Centaurs
Observation
Lost
In popular culture
Gallery
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links
Etymology
The word comet derives from the Old English cometa from the Latin comēta or comētēs. That, in turn, is a latinization of the
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Greek κομήτης ("wearing long hair"), and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the
term (ἀστὴρ) κομήτης already meant "long-haired star, comet" in Greek. Κομήτης was
derived from κομᾶν ("to wear the hair long"), which was itself derived from κόμη ("the hair
of the head") and was used to mean "the tail of a comet".[12][13]
A comet was mentioned in the
The astronomical symbol for comets is (in Unicode ☄ U+2604), consisting of a small Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that
disc with three hairlike extensions.[14] allegedly made an appearance in
729 AD.
Physical characteristics
Nucleus
The solid, core structure of a comet is known as the nucleus. Cometary nuclei
are composed of an amalgamation of rock, dust, water ice, and frozen carbon
dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and ammonia.[15] As such, they are
popularly described as "dirty snowballs" after Fred Whipple's model.[16] Comets
with a higher dust content have been called "icy dirtballs".[17] The term "icy
dirtballs" arose after observation of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 collision with an
"impactor" probe sent by NASA Deep Impact mission in July 2005. Research
conducted in 2014 suggests that comets are like "deep fried ice cream", in that
their surfaces are formed of dense crystalline ice mixed with organic
compounds, while the interior ice is colder and less dense.[18] Diagram showing the physical characteristics of a
Comet. a) Nucleus, b) Coma, c) Gas/Ion tail d)
The surface of the nucleus is generally dry, dusty or rocky, suggesting that the Dust tail, e) Hydrogen envelope, f) Movement of
ices are hidden beneath a surface crust several metres thick. In addition to the the Comet g) Direction to the Sun.
gases already mentioned, the nuclei contain a variety of organic compounds,
which may include methanol, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, ethanol, ethane,
and perhaps more complex molecules such as long-chain hydrocarbons and amino acids.
[19][20] In 2009, it was confirmed that the amino acid glycine had been found in the comet
dust recovered by NASA's Stardust mission.[21] In August 2011, a report, based on NASA
studies of meteorites found on Earth, was published suggesting DNA and RNA components
(adenine, guanine, and related organic molecules) may have been formed on asteroids and
comets.[22][23]
The outer surfaces of cometary nuclei have a very low

albedo, making them among the least reflective objects Nucleus of 103P/Hartley as imaged
found in the Solar System. The Giotto space probe during a spacecraft flyby. The
found that the nucleus of Halley's Comet reflects about nucleus is about 2 km in length.
four percent of the light that falls on it,[24] and Deep
Space 1 discovered that Comet Borrelly's surface
reflects less than 3.0%;[24] by comparison, asphalt reflects seven percent. The dark surface
material of the nucleus may consist of complex organic compounds. Solar heating drives off
lighter volatile compounds, leaving behind larger organic compounds that tend to be very
Comet Borrelly exhibits jets, but has
dark, like tar or crude oil. The low reflectivity of cometary surfaces causes them to absorb
no surface ice.
the heat that drives their outgassing processes.[25]
Comet nuclei with radii of up to 30 kilometers (19 mi) have been observed,[26] but
ascertaining their exact size is difficult.[27] The nucleus of 322P/SOHO is probably only 100–200 meters (330–660 ft) in
diameter.[28] A lack of smaller comets being detected despite the increased sensitivity of instruments has led some to suggest
that there is a real lack of comets smaller than 100 meters (330 ft) across.[29] Known comets have been estimated to have an
average density of 0.6 g/cm3 (0.35 oz/cu in).[30] Because of their low mass, comet nuclei do not become spherical under their
own gravity and therefore have irregular shapes.[31]
Roughly six percent of the near-Earth asteroids are thought to be extinct nuclei of comets that no longer experience
outgassing,[32] including 14827 Hypnos and 3552 Don Quixote.
Results from the Rosetta and Philae spacecraft show that the nucleus of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has no magnetic field,
which suggests that magnetism may not have played a role in the early formation of planetesimals.[33][34] Further, the ALICE
spectrograph on Rosetta determined that electrons (within 1 km (0.62 mi) above the comet nucleus) produced from
photoionization of water molecules by solar radiation, and not photons from the Sun as thought earlier, are responsible for the
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degradation of water and carbon dioxide molecules released from the comet nucleus into
its coma.[35][36] Instruments on the Philae lander found at least sixteen organic compounds
at the comet's surface, four of which (acetamide, acetone, methyl isocyanate and
propionaldehyde) have been detected for the first time on a comet.[37][38][39]
Properties of some comets
Dimensions Density Mass Comet 81P/Wild exhibits jets on

Name Refs
(km) (g/cm3) (kg)[40] light side and dark side, stark relief,
and is dry.
Halley's Comet 15 × 8 × 8 0.6 3 × 1014 [41][42]
Tempel 1 7.6 × 4.9 0.62 7.9 × 1013 [30][43]
19P/Borrelly 8×4×4 0.3 2.0 × 1013 [30]
81P/Wild 5.5 × 4.0 × 3.3 0.6 2.3 × 1013 [30][44]
67P/Churyumov–
4.1 × 3.3 × 1.8 0.47 1.0 × 1013 [45][46]
Gerasimenko
Coma
The streams of dust and gas thus released form a huge and extremely thin atmosphere
around the comet called the "coma". The force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation
pressure and solar wind cause an enormous "tail" to form pointing away from the Sun.[48]
The coma is generally made of water and dust, with water making up to 90% of the volatiles
that outflow from the nucleus when the comet is within 3 to 4 astronomical units
(450,000,000 to 600,000,000 km; 280,000,000 to 370,000,000 mi) of the Sun.[49] The
H2O parent molecule is destroyed primarily through photodissociation and to a much
smaller extent photoionization, with the solar wind playing a minor role in the destruction
of water compared to photochemistry.[49] Larger dust particles are left along the comet's
orbital path whereas smaller particles are pushed away from the Sun into the comet's tail
by light pressure.[50] Hubble image of Comet ISON
shortly before perihelion.[47]
Although the solid nucleus of comets is generally less than 60 kilometers (37 mi) across,
the coma may be thousands or millions of kilometers across, sometimes becoming larger
than the Sun.[51] For example, about a month after an outburst in October 2007, comet 17P/Holmes briefly had a tenuous dust
atmosphere larger than the Sun.[52] The Great Comet of 1811 also had a coma roughly the diameter of the Sun.[53] Even though
the coma can become quite large, its size can decrease about the time it crosses the orbit of Mars around 1.5 astronomical units
(220,000,000 km; 140,000,000 mi) from the Sun.[53] At this distance the solar wind becomes strong enough to blow the gas
and dust away from the coma, and in doing so enlarging the tail.[53] Ion tails have been observed to extend one astronomical
unit (150 million km) or more.[52]
Both the coma and tail are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible when a comet
passes through the inner Solar System, the dust reflects sunlight directly while the gases
glow from ionisation.[54] Most comets are too faint to be visible without the aid of a
telescope, but a few each decade become bright enough to be visible to the naked eye.[55]
Occasionally a comet may experience a huge and sudden outburst of gas and dust, during
which the size of the coma greatly increases for a period of time. This happened in 2007 to
Comet Holmes.[56]
In 1996, comets were found to emit X-rays.[57] This greatly surprised astronomers because
X-ray emission is usually associated with very high-temperature bodies. The X-rays are C/2006 W3 (Chistensen) emitting
generated by the interaction between comets and the solar wind: when highly charged solar carbon gas (IR image)
wind ions fly through a cometary atmosphere, they collide with cometary atoms and
molecules, "stealing" one or more electrons from the atom in a process called "charge
exchange". This exchange or transfer of an electron to the solar wind ion is followed by its de-excitation into the ground state of
the ion by the emission of X-rays and far ultraviolet photons.[58]
Bow shock
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Bow shocks form as a result of the interaction between the solar wind and the cometary ionosphere, which is created by
ionization of gases in the coma. As the comet approaches the Sun, increasing outgassing rates cause the coma to expand, and
the sunlight ionizes gases in the coma. When the solar wind passes through this ion coma, the bow shock appears.
The first observations were made in the 1980s and 90s as several spacecraft flew by comets 21P/Giacobini–Zinner,[59]
1P/Halley,[60] and 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup.[61] It was then found that the bow shocks at comets are wider and more gradual than
the sharp planetary bow shocks seen at, for example, Earth. These observations were all made near perihelion when the bow
shocks already were fully developed.
The Rosetta spacecraft observed the bow shock at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at an early stage of bow shock
development when the outgassing increased during the comet's journey toward the Sun. This young bow shock was called the
"infant bow shock". The infant bow shock is asymmetric and, relative to the distance to the nucleus, wider than fully developed
bow shocks.[62]
Tails
In the outer Solar System, comets remain frozen and inactive and are extremely
difficult or impossible to detect from Earth due to their small size. Statistical
detections of inactive comet nuclei in the Kuiper belt have been reported from
observations by the Hubble Space Telescope[63][64] but these detections have been
questioned.[65][66] As a comet approaches the inner Solar System, solar radiation
causes the volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the
nucleus, carrying dust away with them.
The streams of dust and gas each form their own distinct tail, pointing in slightly
Typical direction of tails during a comet's orbit
near the Sun different directions. The tail of dust is left behind in the comet's orbit in such a
manner that it often forms a curved tail called the type II or dust tail.[54] At the
same time, the ion or type I tail, made of gases, always points directly away from
the Sun because this gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than is dust, following magnetic field lines rather than an
orbital trajectory.[67] On occasions—such as when Earth passes through a comet's orbital plane, the antitail, pointing in the
opposite direction to the ion and dust tails, may be seen.[68]
The observation of antitails contributed significantly to the discovery of solar wind.[69] The ion tail
is formed as a result of the ionization by solar ultra-violet radiation of particles in the coma. Once
the particles have been ionized, they attain a net positive electrical charge, which in turn gives rise
to an "induced magnetosphere" around the comet. The comet and its induced magnetic field form
an obstacle to outward flowing solar wind particles. Because the relative orbital speed of the comet
and the solar wind is supersonic, a bow shock is formed upstream of the comet in the flow
direction of the solar wind. In this bow shock, large concentrations of cometary ions (called "pick-
up ions") congregate and act to "load" the solar magnetic field with plasma, such that the field
lines "drape" around the comet forming the ion tail.[70]
If the ion tail loading is sufficient, the magnetic field lines are squeezed together to the point
where, at some distance along the ion tail, magnetic reconnection occurs. This leads to a "tail
disconnection event".[70] This has been observed on a number of occasions, one notable event
being recorded on 20 April 2007, when the ion tail of Encke's Comet was completely severed while Diagram of a comet
the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event was observed by the STEREO space showing the dust trail, the
probe.[71] dust tail, and the ion gas tail
formed by solar wind.
In 2013, ESA scientists reported that the ionosphere of the planet Venus streams outwards in a
manner similar to the ion tail seen streaming from a comet under similar conditions."[72][73]
Jets
Uneven heating can cause newly generated gases to break out of a weak spot on the surface of comet's nucleus, like a geyser.[74]
These streams of gas and dust can cause the nucleus to spin, and even split apart.[74] In 2010 it was revealed dry ice (frozen
carbon dioxide) can power jets of material flowing out of a comet nucleus.[75] Infrared imaging of Hartley 2 shows such jets
exiting and carrying with it dust grains into the coma.[76]
Orbital characteristics
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Most comets are small Solar System bodies with elongated elliptical orbits that take them close to
the Sun for a part of their orbit and then out into the further reaches of the Solar System for the
remainder.[77] Comets are often classified according to the length of their orbital periods: The
longer the period the more elongated the ellipse.
Short period
Periodic comets or short-period comets are generally defined as those having orbital periods of
less than 200 years.[78] They usually orbit more-or-less in the ecliptic plane in the same direction
as the planets.[79] Their orbits typically take them out to the region of the outer planets (Jupiter Gas and snow jets of
and beyond) at aphelion; for example, the aphelion of Halley's Comet is a little beyond the orbit of 103P/Hartley
Neptune. Comets whose aphelia are near a major planet's orbit are called its "family".[80] Such
families are thought to arise from the planet capturing formerly long-period comets into shorter
orbits.[81]
At the shorter orbital period extreme, Encke's Comet has an orbit that does not reach the orbit of Jupiter, and is known as an
Encke-type comet. Short-period comets with orbital periods less than 20 years and low inclinations (up to 30 degrees) to the
ecliptic are called traditional Jupiter-family comets (JFCs).[82][83] Those like Halley, with orbital periods of between 20 and
200 years and inclinations extending from zero to more than 90 degrees, are called Halley-type comets (HTCs).[84][85] As of
2020, 91 HTCs have been observed,[86] compared with 691 identified JFCs.[87]
Recently discovered main-belt comets form a distinct class, orbiting in more circular orbits within the asteroid belt.[88]
Because their elliptical orbits frequently take them close to the giant planets, comets are subject to further gravitational
perturbations.[89] Short-period comets have a tendency for their aphelia to coincide with a giant planet's semi-major axis, with
the JFCs being the largest group.[83] It is clear that comets coming in from the Oort cloud often have their orbits strongly
influenced by the gravity of giant planets as a result of a close encounter. Jupiter is the source of the greatest perturbations,
being more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. These perturbations can deflect long-period comets into
shorter orbital periods.[90][91]
Based on their orbital characteristics, short-period comets are thought to originate from the centaurs and the Kuiper
belt/scattered disc[92] —a disk of objects in the trans-Neptunian region—whereas the source of long-period comets is thought to
be the far more distant spherical Oort cloud (after the Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort who hypothesized its existence).[93]
Vast swarms of comet-like bodies are thought to orbit the Sun in these distant regions in roughly circular orbits. Occasionally
the gravitational influence of the outer planets (in the case of Kuiper belt objects) or nearby stars (in the case of Oort cloud
objects) may throw one of these bodies into an elliptical orbit that takes it inwards toward the Sun to form a visible comet.
Unlike the return of periodic comets, whose orbits have been established by previous observations, the appearance of new
comets by this mechanism is unpredictable.[94] When flung into the orbit of the sun, and being continuously dragged towards
it, tons of matter are stripped from the comets which greatly influence their lifetime; the more stripped, the shorter they live
and vice versa.[95]
Long period
Long-period comets have highly eccentric orbits and periods ranging from 200 years to
thousands of years.[96] An eccentricity greater than 1 when near perihelion does not
necessarily mean that a comet will leave the Solar System.[97] For example, Comet
McNaught had a heliocentric osculating eccentricity of 1.000019 near its perihelion
passage epoch in January 2007 but is bound to the Sun with roughly a 92,600-year orbit
because the eccentricity drops below 1 as it moves farther from the Sun. The future orbit of
a long-period comet is properly obtained when the osculating orbit is computed at an epoch
after leaving the planetary region and is calculated with respect to the center of mass of the
Solar System. By definition long-period comets remain gravitationally bound to the Sun;
those comets that are ejected from the Solar System due to close passes by major planets
are no longer properly considered as having "periods". The orbits of long-period comets Orbits of Comet Kohoutek (red) and
take them far beyond the outer planets at aphelia, and the plane of their orbits need not lie Earth (blue), illustrating the high
near the ecliptic. Long-period comets such as Comet West and C/1999 F1 can have eccentricity of its orbit and its rapid
aphelion distances of nearly 70,000 AU (0.34 pc; 1.1 ly) with orbital periods estimated motion when close to the Sun.
around 6 million years.
Single-apparition or non-periodic comets are similar to long-period comets because they also have parabolic or slightly
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hyperbolic trajectories[96] when near perihelion in the inner Solar System. However, gravitational perturbations from giant
planets cause their orbits to change. Single-apparition comets have a hyperbolic or parabolic osculating orbit which allows
them to permanently exit the Solar System after a single pass of the Sun.[98] The Sun's Hill sphere has an unstable maximum
boundary of 230,000 AU (1.1 pc; 3.6 ly).[99] Only a few hundred comets have been seen to reach a hyperbolic orbit (e > 1) when
near perihelion[100] that using a heliocentric unperturbed two-body best-fit suggests they may escape the Solar System.
As of 2019, only two objects have been discovered with an eccentricity significantly greater than one: 1I/ʻOumuamua and
2I/Borisov, indicating an origin outside the Solar System. While ʻOumuamua, with an eccentricity of about 1.2, showed no
optical signs of cometary activity during its passage through the inner Solar System in October 2017, changes to its trajectory
—which suggests outgassing—indicate that it is probably a comet.[101] On the other hand, 2I/Borisov, with an estimated
eccentricity of about 3.36, has been observed to have the coma feature of comets, and is considered the first detected
interstellar comet.[102][103] Comet C/1980 E1 had an orbital period of roughly 7.1 million years before the 1982 perihelion
passage, but a 1980 encounter with Jupiter accelerated the comet giving it the largest eccentricity (1.057) of any known
hyperbolic comet.[104] Comets not expected to return to the inner Solar System include C/1980 E1, C/2000 U5, C/2001 Q4
(NEAT), C/2009 R1, C/1956 R1, and C/2007 F1 (LONEOS).
Some authorities use the term "periodic comet" to refer to any comet with a periodic orbit (that is, all short-period comets plus
all long-period comets),[105] whereas others use it to mean exclusively short-period comets.[96] Similarly, although the literal
meaning of "non-periodic comet" is the same as "single-apparition comet", some use it to mean all comets that are not
"periodic" in the second sense (that is, to also include all comets with a period greater than 200 years).
Early observations have revealed a few genuinely hyperbolic (i.e. non-periodic) trajectories, but no more than could be
accounted for by perturbations from Jupiter. If comets pervaded interstellar space, they would be moving with velocities of the
same order as the relative velocities of stars near the Sun (a few tens of km per second). If such objects entered the Solar
System, they would have positive specific orbital energy and would be observed to have genuinely hyperbolic trajectories. A
rough calculation shows that there might be four hyperbolic comets per century within Jupiter's orbit, give or take one and
perhaps two orders of magnitude.[106]
Hyperbolic comet discoveries[107]
Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Number 12 7 8 4 13 10 16 9 16 5 18 3
Oort cloud and Hills cloud
The Oort cloud is thought to occupy a vast space starting from between 2,000 and
5,000 AU (0.03 and 0.08 ly)[108] to as far as 50,000 AU (0.79 ly)[84] from the Sun. This
cloud encases the celestial bodies that start at the middle of our solar system—the sun, all
the way to outer limits of the Kuiper Belt. The Oort cloud consists of viable materials
necessary for the creation of celestial bodies. The planets we have today, exist only because
of the planetesimals (chunks of leftover space that assisted in the creation of planets) that
were condensed and formed by the gravity of the sun. The eccentric made from these
trapped planetesimals is why the Oort Cloud even exists.[109] Some estimates place the
outer edge at between 100,000 and 200,000 AU (1.58 and 3.16 ly).[108] The region can be
subdivided into a spherical outer Oort cloud of 20,000–50,000 AU (0.32–0.79 ly), and a
The Oort cloud thought to surround
doughnut-shaped inner cloud, the Hills cloud, of 2,000–20,000 AU (0.03–0.32 ly).[110]
the Solar System
The outer cloud is only weakly bound to the Sun and supplies the long-period (and possibly
Halley-type) comets that fall to inside the orbit of Neptune.[84] The inner Oort cloud is also
known as the Hills cloud, named after J. G. Hills, who proposed its existence in 1981.[111] Models predict that the inner cloud
should have tens or hundreds of times as many cometary nuclei as the outer halo;[111][112][113] it is seen as a possible source of
new comets that resupply the relatively tenuous outer cloud as the latter's numbers are gradually depleted. The Hills cloud
explains the continued existence of the Oort cloud after billions of years.[114]
Exocomets
Exocomets beyond the Solar System have also been detected and may be common in the Milky Way.[115] The first exocomet
system detected was around Beta Pictoris, a very young A-type main-sequence star, in 1987.[116][117] A total of 11 such exocomet
systems have been identified as of 2013, using the absorption spectrum caused by the large clouds of gas emitted by comets
when passing close to their star.[115][116] For ten years the Kepler Space Telescope was responsible for searching for planets and
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other forms outside of the solar system. The first transiting exocomets were found in February 2018 by a group consisting of
professional astronomers and citizen scientists in light curves recorded by the Kepler Space Telescope.[118][119] After Kepler
Space Telescope retired in October 2018, a new telescope called TESS Telescope has taken over Kepler's mission. Since the
launch of TESS, astronomers have discovered the transits of comets around the star Beta Pictoris using a light curve from
TESS.[120][121] Since TESS has taken over, astronomers have since been able to better distinguish exocomets with the
spectroscopic method. New planets are detected by the white light curve method which is viewed as a symmetrical dip in the
charts readings when a planet overshadows its parent star. However, after further evaluation of these light curves, it has been
discovered that the asymmetrical patterns of the dips presented are caused by the tail of a comet or of hundreds of comets.[122]
Effects of comets
Connection to meteor showers
As a comet is heated during close passes to the Sun, outgassing of its icy components also
releases solid debris too large to be swept away by radiation pressure and the solar
wind.[123] If Earth's orbit sends it through that trail of debris, which is composed mostly of
fine grains of rocky material, there is likely to be a meteor shower as Earth passes through.
Denser trails of debris produce quick but intense meteor showers and less dense trails
create longer but less intense showers. Typically, the density of the debris trail is related to
how long ago the parent comet released the material.[124][125] The Perseid meteor shower,
for example, occurs every year between 9 and 13 August, when Earth passes through the Diagram of Perseids meteors
orbit of Comet Swift–Tuttle. Halley's Comet is the source of the Orionid shower in October.
[126][127]
Comets and impact on life
Many comets and asteroids collided with Earth in its early stages. Many scientists think that comets bombarding the young
Earth about 4 billion years ago brought the vast quantities of water that now fill Earth's oceans, or at least a significant portion
of it. Others have cast doubt on this idea.[128] The detection of organic molecules, including polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons,[18] in significant quantities in comets has led to speculation that comets or meteorites may have brought the
precursors of life—or even life itself—to Earth.[129] In 2013 it was suggested that impacts between rocky and icy surfaces, such
as comets, had the potential to create the amino acids that make up proteins through shock synthesis.[130] The speed at which
the comets entered the atmosphere, combined with the magnitude of energy created after initial contact, allowed smaller
molecules to condense into the larger macro-molecules that served as the foundation for life.[131] In 2015, scientists found
significant amounts of molecular oxygen in the outgassings of comet 67P, suggesting that the molecule may occur more often
than had been thought, and thus less an indicator of life as has been supposed.[132]
It is suspected that comet impacts have, over long timescales, also delivered significant quantities of water to Earth's Moon,
some of which may have survived as lunar ice.[133] Comet and meteoroid impacts are also thought to be responsible for the
existence of tektites and australites.[134]
Fear of comets
Fear of comets as acts of God and signs of impending doom was highest in Europe from AD 1200 to 1650.[135] The year after the
Great Comet of 1618, for example, Gotthard Arthusius published a pamphlet stating that it was a sign that the Day of Judgment
was near.[136] He listed ten pages of comet-related disasters, including "earthquakes, floods, changes in river courses, hail
storms, hot and dry weather, poor harvests, epidemics, war and treason and high prices".[135]
By 1700 most scholars concluded that such events occurred whether a comet was seen or not. Using Edmund Halley's records
of comet sightings, however, William Whiston in 1711 wrote that the Great Comet of 1680 had a periodicity of 574 years and
was responsible for the worldwide flood in the Book of Genesis, by pouring water on Earth. His announcement revived for
another century fear of comets, now as direct threats to the world instead of signs of disasters.[135] Spectroscopic analysis in
1910 found the toxic gas cyanogen in the tail of Halley's Comet,[137] causing panicked buying of gas masks and quack "anti-
comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas" by the public.[138]
Fate of comets
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Departure (ejection) from Solar System
If a comet is traveling fast enough, it may leave the Solar System. Such comets follow the open path of a hyperbola, and as such
they are called hyperbolic comets. To date, comets are only known to be ejected by interacting with another object in the Solar
System, such as Jupiter.[139] An example of this is thought to be Comet C/1980 E1, which was shifted from a predicted orbit of
7.1 million years around the Sun, to a hyperbolic trajectory, after a 1980 close pass by the planet Jupiter.[140]
Volatiles exhausted
Jupiter-family comets and long-period comets appear to follow very different fading laws. The JFCs are active over a lifetime of
about 10,000 years or ~1,000 orbits whereas long-period comets fade much faster. Only 10% of the long-period comets survive
more than 50 passages to small perihelion and only 1% of them survive more than 2,000 passages.[32] Eventually most of the
volatile material contained in a comet nucleus evaporates, and the comet becomes a small, dark, inert lump of rock or rubble
that can resemble an asteroid.[141] Some asteroids in elliptical orbits are now identified as extinct comets.[142][143][144][145]
Roughly six percent of the near-Earth asteroids are thought to be extinct comet nuclei.[32]
Breakup and collisions
The nucleus of some comets may be fragile, a conclusion supported by the observation of comets splitting apart.[146] A
significant cometary disruption was that of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which was discovered in 1993. A close encounter in July
1992 had broken it into pieces, and over a period of six days in July 1994, these pieces fell into Jupiter's atmosphere—the first
time astronomers had observed a collision between two objects in the Solar System.[147][148] Other splitting comets include
3D/Biela in 1846 and 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann from 1995 to 2006.[149] Greek historian Ephorus reported that a comet
split apart as far back as the winter of 372–373 BC.[150] Comets are suspected of splitting due to thermal stress, internal gas
pressure, or impact.[151]
Comets 42P/Neujmin and 53P/Van Biesbroeck appear to be fragments of a parent comet. Numerical integrations have shown
that both comets had a rather close approach to Jupiter in January 1850, and that, before 1850, the two orbits were nearly
identical.[152]
Some comets have been observed to break up during their perihelion passage, including great comets West and Ikeya–Seki.
Biela's Comet was one significant example, when it broke into two pieces during its passage through the perihelion in 1846.
These two comets were seen separately in 1852, but never again afterward. Instead, spectacular meteor showers were seen in
1872 and 1885 when the comet should have been visible. A minor meteor shower, the Andromedids, occurs annually in
November, and it is caused when Earth crosses the orbit of Biela's Comet.[153]
Some comets meet a more spectacular end – either falling into the Sun[154] or smashing into a planet or other body. Collisions
between comets and planets or moons were common in the early Solar System: some of the many craters on the Moon, for
example, may have been caused by comets. A recent collision of a comet with a planet occurred in July 1994 when Comet
Shoemaker–Levy 9 broke up into pieces and collided with Jupiter.[155]
Brown spots mark impact sites of The break up of Ghost tail of C/2015 D1 (SOHO) after Disintegration of
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 on 73P/Schwassmann– passage at the Sun P/2013 R3
Jupiter Wachmann within three days (2014)[156]
(1995)
Nomenclature
The names given to comets have followed several different conventions over the past two centuries. Prior to the early 20th
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century, most comets were simply referred to by the year when they appeared, sometimes
with additional adjectives for particularly bright comets; thus, the "Great Comet of 1680",
the "Great Comet of 1882", and the "Great January Comet of 1910".
After Edmund Halley demonstrated that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were the same
body and successfully predicted its return in 1759 by calculating its orbit, that comet
became known as Halley's Comet.[157] Similarly, the second and third known periodic
comets, Encke's Comet[158] and Biela's Comet,[159] were named after the astronomers who
calculated their orbits rather than their original discoverers. Later, periodic comets were
usually named after their discoverers, but comets that had appeared only once continued to
Halley's Comet in 1910
be referred to by the year of their appearance.[160]
In the early 20th century, the convention of naming comets after their discoverers became
common, and this remains so today. A comet can be named after its discoverers, or an instrument or program that helped to
find it.[160] For example, in 2019, astronomer Gennady Borisov observed a comet that appeared to have originated outside of
the solar system; the comet was named C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) after him.
History of study
Early observations and thought
From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, it is known that comets have been
noticed by humans for millennia.[161] Until the sixteenth century, comets were usually
considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes, or even
interpreted as attacks by heavenly beings against terrestrial inhabitants.[162][163] In the
11th century Bayeux Tapestry, Halley's Comet is depicted portending the death of Harold
and the triumph of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.[164]
According to Norse Mythology, comets were actually a part of the Giant Ymir's skull.
According to the tale, Odin and his brothers slew Ymir and set about constructing the
world (Earth) from his corpse. They fashioned the oceans from his blood, the soil from
his skin and muscles, vegetation from his hair, clouds from his brains, and the sky from
his skull. Four dwarves, corresponding to the four cardinal points, held Ymir's skull aloft
above the earth. Following this tale, comets in the sky, as believed by the Norse, were
Halley's Comet appeared in 1066, prior
flakes of Ymir's skull falling from the sky and then disintegrating.[165]
to the Battle of Hastings, and is
In India, by the 6th century astronomers believed that comets were celestial bodies that depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.
re-appeared periodically. This was the view expressed in the 6th century by the
astronomers Varāhamihira and Bhadrabahu, and the 10th-century astronomer
Bhaṭṭotpala listed the names and estimated periods of certain comets, but it is not known how these figures were calculated or
how accurate they were.[166]
In 1301, the Italian painter Giotto was the first person to accurately and anatomically portray a comet. In his work Adoration of
the Magi, Giotto's depiction of Halley's Comet in the place of the Star of Bethlehem would go unmatched in accuracy until the
19th century and be bested only with the invention of photography.[164]
Aristotle was the first known scientist to utilize various theories and observational facts to employ a consistent, structured
cosmological theory of comets. He believed that comets were atmospheric phenomena, due to the fact that they could appear
outside of the Zodiac and vary in brightness over the course of a few days. Aristotle's cometary theory arose from his
observations and cosmological theory that everything in the cosmos is arranged in a distinct configuration.[167] Part of this
configuration was a clear separation between the celestial and terrestrial, believing comets to be strictly associated with the
latter. According to Aristotle comets must be within the sphere of the moon and clearly separated from the heavens. His theory
on comets was widely accepted throughout the Middle Ages, despite several discoveries from various individuals challenging
aspects of his work.[168] One notable challenger was Seneca, who questioned the logic of his predecessors sparking much debate
among Aristotle's critics in the 16th and 17th centuries. Seneca thought comets to be more permanent than suggested by their
brief flashes across the sky and provided thought provoking evidence of the celestial nature of comets .[168] He posed many
questions regarding the validity of contemporary theories on comets, however, he did not author a substantial theory of his
own.[169] Pliny the Elder believed that comets were connected with political unrest and death.[170] Pliny observed comets as
"human like", often describing their tails with "long hair" or "long beard".[171] His system for classifying comets according to
their color and shape was used for centuries.[172]
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Astrological interpretations of comets proceeded to take precedence clear into the 15th century, despite the presence of modern
scientific astronomy beginning to take root. In the 1400s, comets continue to forewarn disaster as seen in the Luzerner
Schilling chronicles and in the warnings of Pope Callixtus III.[164] Regiomontanus was the first to attempt to calculate Diurnal
parallax by observing the great comet of 1472. His predictions were not very accurate, but they were conducted in the hopes of
estimating the distance of a comet from the Earth.[172]
In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe and Michael Maestlin demonstrated that comets must exist outside Earth's atmosphere by
measuring the parallax of the Great Comet of 1577.[173] Within the precision of the measurements, this implied the comet must
be at least four times more distant than from Earth to the Moon.[174][175] Based on observations in 1664, Giovanni Borelli
recorded the longitudes and latitudes of comets that he observed, and suggested that cometary orbits may be parabolic.[176]
Galileo Galilei one of the most renowned astronomers to date, even attempted writings on comets in The Assayer. He rejected
Tycho Brahe's theories on the parallax of comets and claimed that they may be a mere optical illusion. Intrigued as early
scientists were about the nature of comets, Galileo could not help but throw about his own theories despite little personal
observation.[172] Kepler responded to these unjust criticisms in his work Hyperaspistes.
Also occurring in the Early modern period was the study of comets and their astrological significance in medical disciplines.
Many healers of this time considered medicine and astronomy to be inter-disciplinary, and employed their knowledge of
comets and other astrological signs for diagnosing and treating patients.[177]
Orbital studies
Isaac Newton, in his Principia Mathematica of 1687, proved that an object moving under the influence of gravity must trace
out an orbit shaped like one of the conic sections, and he demonstrated how to fit a comet's path through the sky to a parabolic
orbit, using the comet of 1680 as an example.[178] Newton was one of the first to contribute to the physical understanding of the
nature of comets.
In 1705, Edmond Halley (1656–1742) applied Newton's method to twenty-three

cometary apparitions that had occurred between 1337 and 1698. He noted that
three of these, the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682, had very similar orbital
elements, and he was further able to account for the slight differences in their
orbits in terms of gravitational perturbation caused by Jupiter and Saturn.
Confident that these three apparitions had been three appearances of the same
comet, he predicted that it would appear again in 1758–9.[179] Halley's predicted
return date was later refined by a team of three French mathematicians: Alexis
Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute, who predicted the date of The orbit of the comet of 1680, fitted to a
parabola, as shown in Newton's Principia
the comet's 1759 perihelion to within one month's accuracy.[180][181] When the
comet returned as predicted, it became known as Halley's Comet (with the
modern designation of 1P/Halley). It will next appear in 2061.[182]
In the 19th century, the Astronomical Observatory of Padova, was an epicenter in the observational study of comets. Led by
Giovanni Santini (1787-1877) and followed by Giuseppe Lorenzoni (1843-1914), this observatory was devoted to classical
astronomy, mainly to the new comets and planets orbit calculation, with the goal of compiling of a catalog of almost ten
thousand stars. Situated in the Northern portion of Italy, observations from this observatory were key in establishing important
geodetic, geographic, and astronomical calculations, such as the difference of longitude between Milan and Padua as well as
Padua to Fiume.[183] In addition to these geographic observations, correspondence within the observatory, particularly between
Santini and another astronomer Giuseppe Toaldo, about the importance of comet and planetary orbital observations.[184]
Studies of physical characteristics
Isaac Newton described comets as compact and durable solid bodies moving in oblique orbit and their tails as thin streams of
vapor emitted by their nuclei, ignited or heated by the Sun. Newton suspected that comets were the origin of the life-supporting
component of air.[185]
As early as the 18th century, some scientists had made correct hypotheses as to comets' physical composition. In 1755,
Immanuel Kant hypothesized that comets are composed of some volatile substance, whose vaporization gives rise to their
brilliant displays near perihelion.[187] In 1836, the German mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, after observing streams of
vapor during the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, proposed that the jet forces of evaporating material could be great
enough to significantly alter a comet's orbit, and he argued that the non-gravitational movements of Encke's Comet resulted
from this phenomenon.[188]
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In 1950, Fred Lawrence Whipple proposed that rather than being rocky
objects containing some ice, comets were icy objects containing some From his huge vapouring train perhaps to shake
Reviving moisture on the numerous orbs,
dust and rock.[189] This "dirty snowball" model soon became accepted Thro' which his long ellipsis winds; perhaps
and appeared to be supported by the observations of an armada of To lend new fuel to declining suns,
spacecraft (including the European Space Agency's Giotto probe and the To light up worlds, and feed th' ethereal fire.
Soviet Union's Vega 1 and Vega 2) that flew through the coma of Halley's
Comet in 1986, photographed the nucleus, and observed jets of James Thomson The Seasons (1730; 1748)[186]
evaporating material.[190]
On 22 January 2014, ESA scientists reported the detection, for the first definitive time, of water vapor on the dwarf planet
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.[191] The detection was made by using the far-infrared abilities of the Herschel
Space Observatory.[192] The finding is unexpected because comets, not asteroids, are typically considered to "sprout jets and
plumes". According to one of the scientists, "The lines are becoming more and more blurred between comets and
asteroids."[192] On 11 August 2014, astronomers released studies, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array
(ALMA) for the first time, that detailed the distribution of HCN, HNC, H2CO, and dust inside the comae of comets C/2012 F6
(Lemmon) and C/2012 S1 (ISON).[193][194]
Spacecraft missions
The Halley Armada describes the collection of spacecraft missions that visited and/or made observations of Halley's Comet
1980s perihelion.
Deep Impact. Debate continues about how much ice is in a comet. In 2001, the Deep Space 1 spacecraft obtained high-
resolution images of the surface of Comet Borrelly. It was found that the surface of comet Borrelly is hot and dry, with a
temperature of between 26 to 71 °C (79 to 160 °F), and extremely dark, suggesting that the ice has been removed by solar
heating and maturation, or is hidden by the soot-like material that covers Borrelly.[195] In July 2005, the Deep Impact probe
blasted a crater on Comet Tempel 1 to study its interior. The mission yielded results suggesting that the majority of a
comet's water ice is below the surface and that these reservoirs feed the jets of vaporized water that form the coma of
Tempel 1.[196] Renamed EPOXI, it made a flyby of Comet Hartley 2 on 4 November 2010.
Ulysses. In 2007, the Ulysses probe unexpectedly passed through the tail of the comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) which was
discovered in 2006. Ulysses was launched in 1990 and the intended mission was for Ulysses to orbit around the sun for
further study at all latitudes.
Stardust. Data from the Stardust mission show that materials retrieved from the tail of Wild 2 were crystalline and could
only have been "born in fire", at extremely high temperatures of over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).[197][198] Although comets formed
in the outer Solar System, radial mixing of material during the early formation of the Solar System is thought to have
redistributed material throughout the proto-planetary disk.[199] As a result, comets also contain crystalline grains that
formed in the early, hot inner Solar System. This is seen in comet spectra as well as in sample return missions. More recent
still, the materials retrieved demonstrate that the "comet dust resembles asteroid materials".[200] These new results have
forced scientists to rethink the nature of comets and their distinction from asteroids.[201]
Rosetta. The Rosetta probe orbited Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. On 12 November 2014, its lander Philae
successfully landed on the comet's surface, the first time a spacecraft has ever landed on such an object in history.[202]
Great comets
Approximately once a decade, a comet becomes bright enough to be noticed by

a casual observer, leading such comets to be designated as great comets.[150]
Predicting whether a comet will become a great comet is notoriously difficult, as
many factors may cause a comet's brightness to depart drastically from
predictions.[203] Broadly speaking, if a comet has a large and active nucleus, will
pass close to the Sun, and is not obscured by the Sun as seen from Earth when
at its brightest, it has a chance of becoming a great comet. However, Comet
Kohoutek in 1973 fulfilled all the criteria and was expected to become
spectacular but failed to do so.[204] Comet West, which appeared three years
later, had much lower expectations but became an extremely impressive
comet.[205]
Woodcut of the Great Comet of 1577
The Great Comet of 1577 is a well known example of a great comet. The Great
Comet of 1577 passed near Earth as a non-periodic comet and was seen by
many, including well-known astronomers Tycho Brahe and Taqi ad-Din. Observations of this comet led to several significant
findings regarding cometary science, especially for Brahe.
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The late 20th century saw a lengthy gap without the appearance of any great comets, followed by the arrival of two in quick
succession—Comet Hyakutake in 1996, followed by Hale–Bopp, which reached maximum brightness in 1997 having been
discovered two years earlier. The first great comet of the 21st century was C/2006 P1 (McNaught), which became visible to
naked eye observers in January 2007. It was the brightest in over 40 years.[206]
Sungrazing comets
A sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion, generally within a few million
kilometers.[207] Although small sungrazers can be completely evaporated during such a close approach to the Sun, larger
sungrazers can survive many perihelion passages. However, the strong tidal forces they experience often lead to their
fragmentation.[208]
About 90% of the sungrazers observed with SOHO are members of the Kreutz group, which all originate from one giant comet
that broke up into many smaller comets during its first passage through the inner Solar System.[209] The remainder contains
some sporadic sungrazers, but four other related groups of comets have been identified among them: the Kracht, Kracht 2a,
Marsden, and Meyer groups. The Marsden and Kracht groups both appear to be related to Comet 96P/Machholz, which is also
the parent of two meteor streams, the Quadrantids and the Arietids.[210]
Unusual comets
Of the thousands of known comets, some exhibit unusual properties. Comet

Encke (2P/Encke) orbits from outside the asteroid belt to just inside the orbit of
the planet Mercury whereas the Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
currently travels in a nearly circular orbit entirely between the orbits of Jupiter
and Saturn.[211] 2060 Chiron, whose unstable orbit is between Saturn and
Uranus, was originally classified as an asteroid until a faint coma was
noticed.[212] Similarly, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 2 was originally designated
asteroid 1990 UL3.[213] (See also Fate of comets, above)
Centaurs
Centaurs typically behave with characteristics of both asteroids and comets.[214] Euler diagram showing the types of bodies in the
Centaurs can be classified as comets such as 60558 Echeclus, and 166P/NEAT. Solar System.
166P/NEAT was discovered while it exhibited a coma, and so is classified as a
comet despite its orbit, and 60558 Echeclus was discovered without a coma but
later became active,[215] and was then classified as both a comet and an asteroid (174P/Echeclus). One plan for Cassini involved
sending it to a centaur, but NASA decided to destroy it instead.[216]
Observation
A comet may be discovered photographically using a wide-field telescope or visually with binoculars. However, even without
access to optical equipment, it is still possible for the amateur astronomer to discover a sungrazing comet online by
downloading images accumulated by some satellite observatories such as SOHO.[217] SOHO's 2000th comet was discovered by
Polish amateur astronomer Michał Kusiak on 26 December 2010[218] and both discoverers of Hale–Bopp used amateur
equipment (although Hale was not an amateur).
Lost
A number of periodic comets discovered in earlier decades or previous centuries are now lost comets. Their orbits were never
known well enough to predict future appearances or the comets have disintegrated. However, occasionally a "new" comet is
discovered, and calculation of its orbit shows it to be an old "lost" comet. An example is Comet 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR,
discovered in 1869 but unobservable after 1908 because of perturbations by Jupiter. It was not found again until accidentally
rediscovered by LINEAR in 2001.[219] There are at least 18 comets that fit this category.[220]
In popular culture
The depiction of comets in popular culture is firmly rooted in the long Western tradition of seeing comets as harbingers of
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doom and as omens of world-altering change.[221] Halley's Comet alone has caused a slew of sensationalist publications of all
sorts at each of its reappearances. It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with
separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain (who correctly speculated that he'd "go out with the
comet" in 1910)[221] and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song "Halley Came to Jackson".[221]
In times past, bright comets often inspired panic and hysteria in the general population, being thought of as bad omens. More
recently, during the passage of Halley's Comet in 1910, Earth passed through the comet's tail, and erroneous newspaper reports
inspired a fear that cyanogen in the tail might poison millions,[222] whereas the appearance of Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997
triggered the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult.[223]
In science fiction, the impact of comets has been depicted as a threat overcome by technology and heroism (as in the 1998 films
Deep Impact and Armageddon), or as a trigger of global apocalypse (Lucifer's Hammer, 1979) or zombies (Night of the Comet,
1984).[221] In Jules Verne's Off on a Comet a group of people are stranded on a comet orbiting the Sun, while a large manned
space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.[224]
Gallery
Comet Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) The Great Comet of 1882 is a

C2020F3 taken from Victoria, Australia 2007 member of the Kreutz group
NEOWISE
Great Comet 1861 Comet Hyakutake (X- "Active asteroid"

ray, ROSAT satellite) 311P/PANSTARRS with several
tails[225]
Comet Siding Spring (Hubble; 11 March 2014) Mosaic of 20 comets NEOWISE – first four years of
discovered by the WISE space data starting in December 2013
telescope
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C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) heads View from the impactor

towards the Sun in its last moments
before hitting Comet
Tempel 1 during the
Deep Impact mission
Videos
NASA is developing a comet harpoon for Comet Encke loses its tail
returning samples to Earth
See also
The Big Splash
Comet vintages
List of impact craters on Earth
List of possible impact structures on Earth
Lists of comets
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la Cométe attendue doit passer à son périhélie vers le milieu du mois d'Avril prochain." ( … it seems to me that the
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régions aussi éloignées, & qui échappe à nos yeux pendant des intervalles aussi longs, pourroit être soumis à des
forces totalement inconnues; telles que l'action d'autres Cométes, ou même de quelque planéte toujours trop distante
du Soleil pour être jamais apperçue." (A body [i.e., Halley's comet] which passes into regions so remote, and which
escapes our eyes during such long intervals, might be subjected to totally unknown forces; such as the action of other
comets, or even of some planet always too far from the sun to ever be perceived.)
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soir, dans laquelle l'on m'écrit que l'on a publié à Leipsick le 24 Janvier de cette année un Mémoire Allemand dans
lequel il est dit que cette Comète a été vue en Saxe par un Paysan, nommé Palisch, le 25 & 26 Décembre de l'année
dernière; j'ai bien de la peine à concevoir comment ce Paysan aura pû la découvrir, cette Comète, … " ( … I received a
letter from Heidelberg on the first of April in the evening, in which it is written to me that there had been published at
Leipzig on the 24th of January of this year a German memoir in which it is said that this comet had been seen in Saxony
by a peasant, named Palisch, on the 25th and 26th of December of last year; I can hardly conceive how this peasant
could have discovered it, this comet, … )
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travail." ( … but it must be admitted that this immense series of details would have seemed frightening to me if Madame
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by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Comets: from myths to reality (https://bibnum.obspm.fr/exhibits/show/cometes), exhibition on Paris Observatory digital
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The outer surfaces of cometary nuclei have a very low

Properties of some comets

Dimensions Density Mass Comet 81P/Wild exhibits jets on

Tempel 1 7.6 × 4.9 0.62 7.9 × 1013 [30][43]

19P/Borrelly 8×4×4 0.3 2.0 × 1013 [30]

81P/Wild 5.5 × 4.0 × 3.3 0.6 2.3 × 1013 [30][44]

Hyperbolic comet discoveries[107]

Oort cloud and Hills cloud

Connection to meteor showers

Comets and impact on life

Departure (ejection) from Solar System

Breakup and collisions

Early observations and thought

In 1705, Edmond Halley (1656–1742) applied Newton's method to twenty-three

Studies of physical characteristics

Approximately once a decade, a comet becomes bright enough to be noticed by

Of the thousands of known comets, some exhibit unusual properties. Comet

Comet Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) The Great Comet of 1882 is a

Great Comet 1861 Comet Hyakutake (X- "Active asteroid"

C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) heads View from the impactor

50. Morris, Charles S. "Comet Definitions" (http://migall.fastmail.fm/astronomy/solar_system/small_bodies/hale_bop/jpl/define.h

91. Koupelis, Theo (2010). In Quest of the Solar System (https://books.google.com/books?id=w7E_uwj0Lc8C&pg=PA246).

134. "Australites" (http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/infosheets/australites/). Museum Victoria. Retrieved

Catalogue of the Solar System Small Bodies Orbital Evolution (http://smallbodies.ru/en/)

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