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Print this page: File > Print > OK NOTABLE OR BRIGHT COMETS OF LONG OR UNCERTAIN PERIOD
COMET NAME Year Orbital P Ecc Inc Notes
seen period dist (°)
years
Comet of 1680 1680 8 917 0.006 0.9999 6
1P/Halley 1759 76 0.587 0.967 162
Flaugergues 1811 I 3 096 1.035 0.995 10
1P/Halley 1835 76 0.587 0.967 162
Great Comet 1843 I 517 0.0055 0.99991 14
Donati's Comet 1858 VI 1 951 0.578 0.996 11
Great Comet 1861 I 409 0.882 0.985 85
Comet of 1861 1861 - - - - Discovered by Tebbutt.
Comet of 1862 1862 - - - - Discovered by Swift.
Coggia's Comet 1874 - - - -
Great Comet 1882 - - - - Seen from S. Africa.
Great Comet 1882 I 759 0.0077 0.99991 14
Bright Comet 1901 - - - - Discovered by Paysandu.
Morehouse's Comet 1908 III - - - -
Daylight Comet 1910 - - - - Brightest, 20th Cent.
1P/Halley 1910 76 0.587 0.967 162
C/1919 Q2 (Metcalf) 1919 - 1.12 1.00 46
Skjellerup's Comet 1927 - - - -
D/1937 D1 (Wilk) 1937 187 0.62 0.98 26
Bright Southern Comet 1947 - - - - Bright for brief period.
Arend-Roland 1957 III - - - -
Mkros 1957 - - - -
Pereyra 1963 V 903 0.0051 0.99995 14
C/1964 N1 (Ikeya) 1964 391 0.82 0.98 172
Ikeya-Seki (C/1965 S1) 1965 VIII 880 0.008 0.9999 142 (a)
Bennett (C/1969 Y1) 1970 II 1 678 0.538 0.996 90
C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) 1973 XII - 0.14 1.00 14
C/1974 V2 (Bennett) 1974 - 0.86 1.00 135 (b)
C/1976 D2 (Schuster) 1976 - 6.88 1.00 112
C/1975 V1 (West) 1976 c.500 000 0.20 1.00 43
C/1980 E1 (Bowell) 1980 - 3.36 1.06 2
C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) 1983 - 0.99 0.99 73 (c)
C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) 1996 c.21 000 0.23 1.00 125 (d)
C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) 1997 c.2 500 0.91 1.00 89
C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) 2000 1 m + ? 0.76 0.99 149 (e)
C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang 2002 341 0.50 0.99 28
Notes: P = perihelion distance. Ecc. = Eccentricity of orbit. Inc. = Inclination of orbit to the ecliptic. (a) Comet thought to be parts of the Kreutz group which is thought to be the parts of what was once a much larger object. (b) Comet disappeared or possibly disintegrated before perihelion. (c) Comet passed within 0.03 AU of Earth on 11/5/83. (d) Comet passed within 0.1 AU of Earth on 25/3/96. (e) Comet observed disintegrating late July 2000. Source: Derek Haselden's Astronomical Charts & Tables
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