| Comets |
| Features
| Nucleus • Coma • Tails • Antitail • Comet dust • Meteor shower |
| Types
| Periodic • Numbered • Lost • Long period • Halley-type • Jupiter-family • Encke-type • Main-belt • Non-periodic • Near-parabolic • Hyperbolic • Unknown-orbit • Great Comet • Sungrazing (Kreutz) • Extinct • Exocomet • Interstellar |
| Related
| Naming of comets • Centaur • Comet discoverers • LINEAR • Extraterrestrial atmosphere • Oort cloud • Small Solar System body • Asteroid |
| Exploration
| List of missions to comets • List of comets visited by spacecraft |
| Latest
| C/2020 F8 (SWAN) • C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) • C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) • C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS) • 2I/Borisov • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) • C/2017 U7 • 1I/2017 U1 ʻOumuamua • C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE) • C/2015 G2 (MASTER) • C/2015 F5 (SWAN-XingMing) • C/2015 F3 • C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) • C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) • C/2014 E2 (Jacques) • C/2013 US10 (Catalina) • C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) • C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) • C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) |
Culture and
speculation
| Antimatter comet • Comets in fiction • list • Comet vintages |
Periodic
comets |
Until 1985
(all) |
1P/Halley • 2P/Encke • 3D/Biela • 4P/Faye • 5D/Brorsen • 6P/d'Arrest • 7P/Pons-Winnecke • 8P/Tuttle • 9P/Tempel • 10P/Tempel • 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR • 12P/Pons-Brooks • 13P/Olbers • 14P/Wolf • 15P/Finlay • 16P/Brooks • 17P/Holmes • 18D/Perrine-Mrkos • 19P/Borrelly • 20D/Westphal • 21P/Giacobini-Zinner • 22P/Kopff • 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf • 24P/Schaumasse • 25D/Neujmin • 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup • 27P/Crommelin • 28P/Neujmin • 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann • 30P/Reinmuth • 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann • 32P/Comas Solà • 33P/Daniel • 34D/Gale • 35P/Herschel-Rigollet • 36P/Whipple • 37P/Forbes • 38P/Stephan-Oterma • 39P/Oterma • 40P/Väisälä • 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák • 42P/Neujmin • 43P/Wolf-Harrington • 44P/Reinmuth • 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková • 46P/Wirtanen • 47P/Ashbrook-Jackson • 48P/Johnson • 49P/Arend-Rigaux • 50P/Arend • 51P/Harrington • 52P/Harrington-Abell • 53P/Van Biesbroeck • 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT • 55P/Tempel-Tuttle • 56P/Slaughter-Burnham • 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte • 58P/Jackson-Neujmin • 59P/Kearns-Kwee • 60P/Tsuchinshan • 61P/Shajn-Schaldach • 62P/Tsuchinshan • 63P/Wild • 64P/Swift-Gehrels • 65P/Gunn • 66P/du Toit • 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko • 68P/Klemola • 69P/Taylor • 70P/Kojima • 71P/Clark • 72P/Denning-Fujikawa • 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann • 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh • 75D/Kohoutek • 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura • 77P/Longmore • 78P/Gehrels • 79P/du Toit-Hartley • 80P/Peters-Hartley • 81P/Wild • 82P/Gehrels • 83D/Russell • 84P/Giclas • 85D/Boethin • 86P/Wild • 87P/Bus • 88P/Howell • 89P/Russell • 90P/Gehrels • 91P/Russell • 92P/Sanguin • 93P/Lovas • 94P/Russell • 95P/Chiron • 96P/Machholz • 97P/Metcalf-Brewington • 98P/Takamizawa • 99P/Kowal • 100P/Hartley • 101P/Chernykh • 102P/Shoemaker |
After 1985
(notable) |
103P/Hartley • 105P/Singer Brewster • 107P/Wilson-Harrington • 109P/Swift-Tuttle • 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett • 114P/Wiseman-Skiff • 128P/Shoemaker-Holt • 139P/Väisälä-Oterma • 144P/Kushida • 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu • 153P/Ikeya-Zhang • 163P/NEAT • 168P/Hergenrother • 169P/NEAT • 177P/Barnard • 178P/Hug-Bell • 205P/Giacobini • 209P/LINEAR • 238P/Read • 246P/NEAT • 252P/LINEAR • 255P/Levy • 273P/Pons-Gambart • 276P/Vorobjov • 289P/Blanpain • 311P/PANSTARRS • 322P/SOHO • 332P/Ikeya-Murakami • 354P/LINEAR • 362P • P/1997 B1 (Kobayashi) • P/2010 B2 (WISE) • P/2011 NO1 (Elenin) |
Comet-like
asteroids |
596 Scheila • 2060 Chiron (95P) • 4015 Wilson-Harrington (107P) • 7968 Elst-Pizarro (133P) • 165P/LINEAR • 166P/NEAT • 167P/CINEOS • 60558 Echeclus (174P) • 118401 LINEAR (176P) • 238P/Read • 259P/Garradd • 311P/PANSTARRS • 324P/La Sagra • P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) • P/2012 F5 (Gibbs) • P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) • P/2013 R3 (Catalina-PANSTARRS) • (300163) 2006 VW139 |
| Lost |
Recovered |
11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR • 15P/Finlay • 17P/Holmes • 27P/Crommelin • 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT • 55P/Tempel-Tuttle • 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte • 69P/Taylor • 72P/Denning-Fujikawa • 80P/Peters-Hartley • 97P/Metcalf-Brewington • 107P/Wilson-Harrington • 109P/Swift-Tuttle • 113P/Spitaler • 122P/de Vico • 157P/Tritton • 177P/Barnard • 205P/Giacobini • 206P/Barnard-Boattini • 271P/van Houten-Lemmon • 273P/Pons-Gambart • 289P/Blanpain |
| Destroyed |
3D/Biela • 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann • D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker-Levy 9) |
| Not found |
D/1770 L1 (Lexell) • 5D/Brorsen • 18D/Perrine-Mrkos • 20D/Westphal • 25D/Neujmin • 34D/Gale • 75D/Kohoutek • 83D/Russell • 85D/Boethin |
Visited by
spacecraft |
21P/Giacobini-Zinner (1985) • 1P/Halley (1986) • 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup (1992) • 19P/Borrelly (2001) • 81P/Wild (2004) • 9P/Tempel (2005, 2011) • C/2006 P1 (2007) • 103P/Hartley (2010) • 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2014) |
Non-Periodic
comets
(notable) |
Until 1910 |
C/-43 K1 (Caesar's Comet) • X/1106 C1 (Great Comet of 1106) • C/1577 V1 (Great Comet of 1577) • C/1652 Y1 • C/1680 V1 (Great Comet of 1680, Kirsch's Comet, Newton's Comet)) • C/1702 H1 (Comet of 1702) • C/1729 P1 (Comet of 1729, Comet Sarabat) • C/1743 X1 (Great Comet of 1744, Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux) • C/1760 A1 (Great Comet of 1760) • C/1769 P1 (Great Comet of 1769) • C/1807 R1 (Great Comet of 1807) • C/1811 F1 (Great Comet of 1811) • C/1819 N1 (Great Comet of 1819) • C/1823 Y1 (Great Comet of 1823) • C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet of 1843) • C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet) • C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati) • C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher) • C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861) • C/1865 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1865) • X/1872 X1 (Pogson's Comet) • C/1874 H1 (Comet Coggia) • C/1881 K1 (Comet Tebbutt) • C/1882 R1 (Great Comet of 1882) • C/1887 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1887) • C/1890 V1 (Comet Zona) • C/1901 G1 (Great Comet of 1901) • C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910) |
| After 1910 |
C/1911 O1 (Brooks) • C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky) • C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup-Maristany) • C/1931 P1 (Ryves) • C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos) [de] • C/1947 X1 (Southern Comet) [de] • C/1948 V1 (Eclipse) • C/1956 R1 (Arend-Roland) • C/1957 P1 (Mrkos) • C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard) [de] • C/1961 R1 (Humason) • C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines) [de] • C/1963 R1 (Pereyra) • C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) • C/1969 Y1 (Bennett) • C/1970 K1 (White-Ortiz-Bolelli) • C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) • C/1975 V1 (West) • C/1980 E1 (Bowell) • C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) • C/1989 X1 (Austin) • C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko-George) • C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch-Rabinowitz) • C/1993 Y1 (McNaught-Russell) • C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) • C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) • C/1997 L1 (Zhu-Balam) • C/1998 H1 (Stonehouse) • C/1998 J1 (SOHO) • C/1999 F1 (Catalina) • C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) • C/2000 U5 (LINEAR) • C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones) • C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS) • C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) • C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) • C/2003 A2 (Gleason) • C/2004 F4 (Bradfield) [de] • C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) • C/2006 A1 (Pojmański) • C/2006 M4 (SWAN) • C/2006 P1 (McNaught) • C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) • C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) • C/2007 K5 (Lovejoy) • C/2007 N3 (Lulin) • C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) • C/2007 W1 (Boattini) • C/2008 Q1 (Matičič) • C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) • C/2009 R1 (McNaught) • C/2010 X1 (Elenin) • C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) • C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) • C/2012 E2 (SWAN) • C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) • C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) • C/2012 S1 (ISON) • C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) • C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) • C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) • C/2013 US10 (Catalina) • C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) • C/2014 E2 (Jacques) • C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) • C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) • C/2015 V2 (Johnson) • 1I/2017 U1 ʻOumuamua • C/2017 U7 • C/2018 C2 (Lemmon) • C/2019 E3 (ATLAS) • 2I/Borisov |
After 1910
(by name) |
Arend-Roland • Austin • Beljawsky • Bennett • Boattini • Bowell • Bradfield [de] • Brooks • Catalina • C/1999 F1 • C/2013 US10 • de Kock-Paraskevopoulos [de] • Eclipse • Elenin • Hale-Bopp • Humason • Hyakutake • Ikeya-Seki • IRAS-Araki-Alcock • ISON • Jacques • Johnson • Kohoutek • Lemmon • C/2012 F6 • C/2018 C2 • LINEAR • C/1999 S4 • C/2000 U5 • C/2002 T7 • LONEOS • C/2001 OG108 • C/2007 F1 • Lovejoy • C/2007 E2 • C/2007 K5 • C/2011 W3 • C/2013 R1 • C/2014 Q2 • Lulin • Machholz • Matičič • McNaught • C/2006 P1 • C/2009 R1 • McNaught-Russell • Mrkos • NEAT • Oukaimeden • ʻOumuamua • Pan-STARRS • C/2011 L4 • C/2012 K1 • C/2012 S4 • 311P • C/2015 ER61 • Pereyra • Pojmański • Ryves • Seki-Lines [de] • Siding Spring • C/2007 Q3 • C/2013 A1 • Skjellerup-Maristany • Skorichenko-George • SOHO • Southern [de] • Spacewatch-Rabinowitz • Stonehouse • SWAN • C/2006 M4 • C/2012 E2 • Utsunomiya-Jones • West • White-Ortiz-Bolelli • Wilson-Hubbard [de] • Yi-SWAN • Zhu-Balam |