Template:Comets
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| group1 = Features
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| group2 = Types
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- 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
| group3 = Related
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- Naming of comets
- Observational history of comets
- Centaur
- Comet discoverers
- LINEAR
- Extraterrestrial atmosphere
- Oort cloud
- Small Solar System body
- Asteroid
| group4 = Exploration
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| group5 = Latest
| list5 =
- C/2025 F2 (SWAN)
- C/2024 S1 (ATLAS)
- C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)
- C/2023 P1 (Nishimura)
- C/2023 H2 (Lemmon)
- C/2023 E1 (ATLAS)
- C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
- C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
- C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2021 J1 (Maury-Attard)
- C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
- C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
- C/2020 F5 (MASTER)
- C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
- C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
- C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS)
- C/2019 U6 (Lemmon)
- 2I/Borisov
- P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS)
- C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
- C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)
- C/2017 U7
- C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
| group6 = Culture and
speculation
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| section2 = Lists of comets (more)
| abbr2 = Lists
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| group1 = Periodic
comets
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| group1 = Until 1985
(all)
| list1 =
- 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
| group2 = After 1985
(notable)
| list2 =
- 88P/Howell
- 92P/Sanguin
- 96P/Machholz
- 97P/Metcalf–Brewington
- 103P/Hartley
- 107P/Wilson–Harrington
- 108P/Ciffréo
- 109P/Swift–Tuttle
- 122P/de Vico
- 126P/IRAS
- 141P/Machholz
- 144P/Kushida
- 147P/Kushida–Muramatsu
- 153P/Ikeya–Zhang
- 156P/Russell–LINEAR
- 161P/Hartley–IRAS
- 162P/Siding Spring
- 168P/Hergenrother
- 169P/NEAT
- 177P/Barnard
- 178P/Hug–Bell
- 205P/Giacobini
- 209P/LINEAR
- 238P/Read
- 246P/NEAT
- 249P/LINEAR
- 252P/LINEAR
- 255P/Levy
- 273P/Pons–Gambart
- 289P/Blanpain
- 311P/PanSTARRS
- 322P/SOHO
- 323P/SOHO
- 332P/Ikeya–Murakami
- 333P/LINEAR
- 354P/LINEAR
- 362P
- 460P/PanSTARRS
| group3 = Comet-like
asteroids
| list3 =
- 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
- 331P/Gibbs
- 354P/LINEAR
- 358P/PANSTARRS
- P/2013 R3 (Catalina-PANSTARRS)
- (300163) 2006 VW139
| group4 = Lost
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| group1 = Recovered
| list1 =
- 9P/Tempel
- 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
- 113P/Spitaler
- 122P/de Vico
- 157P/Tritton
- 205P/Giacobini
- 206P/Barnard–Boattini
- 226P/Pigott–LINEAR–Kowalski
- 271P/van Houten–Lemmon
- 289P/Blanpain
- 489P/Denning
| group2 = Destroyed
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| group3 = Not found
| list3 =
- D/1770 L1 (Lexell)
- 5D/Brorsen
- 18D/Perrine–Mrkos
- 20D/Westphal
- 25D/Neujmin
- 34D/Gale
- 75D/Kohoutek
- 83D/Russell
- 85D/Boethin
- D/1978 R1 (Haneda–Campos)
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| group5 = Visited by
spacecraft
| list5 =
- 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)
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| group2 = Near-Parabolic
comets
(notable)
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| group1 = Until 1990
| list1 =
- C/-43 K1 (Caesar's Comet)
- X/1106 C1 (Great Comet of 1106)
- C/1264 N1 (Great Comet of 1264)
- C/1402 D1 (Great Comet of 1402)
- C/1471 Y1 (Great Comet of 1472)
- 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/1739 K1 (Zanotti)
- 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/1846 J1 (Brorsen)
- C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet)
- C/1852 K1 (Chacornac)
- C/1853 G1 (Schweizer)
- C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati)
- C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher)
- C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861)
- C/1862 N1 (Schmidt)
- C/1864 N1 (Tempel)
- 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/1893 U1 (Brooks)
- C/1901 G1 (Great Comet of 1901)
- C/1907 G1 (Grigg–Mellish)
- C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910)
- C/1911 N1 (Kiess)
- C/1911 O1 (Brooks)
- C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky)
- C/1915 C1 (Mellish)
- C/1917 F1 (Mellish)
- C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany)
- C/1931 P1 (Ryves)
- C/1936 O1 (Kaho–Kozik–Lis)
- C/1939 H1 (Jurlof–Achmarof–Hassel)
- C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos)
- C/1947 X1 (Southern Comet)
- C/1948 L1 (Honda–Bernasconi)
- C/1948 V1 (Eclipse)
- C/1956 R1 (Arend–Roland)
- C/1957 P1 (Mrkos)
- C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard)
- C/1961 R1 (Humason)
- C/1961 T1 (Seki)
- C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)
- C/1963 A1 (Ikeya)
- C/1963 R1 (Pereyra)
- C/1964 N1 (Ikeya)
- C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki)
- C/1969 T1 (Tago-Sato-Kosaka)
- C/1969 Y1 (Bennett)
- C/1970 K1 (White–Ortiz–Bolelli)
- C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek)
- C/1975 T2 (Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori)
- C/1975 V1 (West)
- C/1979 Y1 (Bradfield)
- C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
- C/1983 H1 (IRAS–Araki–Alcock)
- C/1983 J1 (Sugano–Saigusa–Fujikawa)
- C/1989 W1 (Aarseth-Brewington)
- C/1989 X1 (Austin)
- C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko–George)
| group2 = After 1990
| list2 =
- C/1990 K1 (Levy)
- 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 WM1 (LINEAR)
- C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)
- C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)
- C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
- C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
- C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
- C/2004 F4 (Bradfield)
- 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 N3 (Lulin)
- C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
- C/2007 W1 (Boattini)
- 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/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
- C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
- C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
- C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)
- C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
- C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
- C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein)
- C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)
- C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
- C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
- 1I/2017 U1 ʻOumuamua
- C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
- 2I/Borisov
- C/2019 U6 (Lemmon)
- C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
- C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
- C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
- C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
- C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
- C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
- C/2023 P1 (Nishimura)
- C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)
- C/2024 S1 (ATLAS)
| group3 = After 1910
(by name)
| list3 =
- Aarseth-Brewington
- Arend–Roland
- ATLAS
- C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
- C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)
- C/2024 S1 (ATLAS)
- Austin
- Beljawsky
- Bennett
- Bernardinelli–Bernstein
- Boattini
- Borisov
- Bowell
- Bradfield
- C/1979 Y1
- C/2004 F4
- Brooks
- Catalina
- C/1999 F1
- C/2013 US10
- de Kock–Paraskevopoulos
- Eclipse
- Elenin
- Hale-Bopp
- Honda–Bernasconi
- Humason
- Hyakutake
- Ikeya
- C/1963 A1
- C/1964 N1
- Ikeya-Seki
- IRAS–Araki–Alcock
- ISON
- Iwamoto
- Jacques
- Johnson
- Jurlof–Achmarof–Hassel
- Kaho–Kozik–Lis
- Kiess
- Kohoutek
- Lemmon
- C/2012 F6
- C/2018 C2
- C/2019 U6
- Leonard
- Levy
- LINEAR
- C/1999 S4
- C/2000 WM1
- C/2001 A2
- C/2002 T7
- LONEOS
- C/2001 OG108
- C/2007 F1
- Lovejoy
- C/2007 E2
- C/2011 W3
- C/2013 R1
- C/2014 Q2
- Lulin
- Machholz
- McNaught
- C/2006 P1
- C/2009 R1
- McNaught–Russell
- John E. Mellish
- C/1915 C1 (Mellish)
- C/1917 F1 (Mellish)
- Mrkos
- NEAT
- C/2001 Q4
- C/2002 V1
- NEOWISE
- Nishimura
- Oukaimeden
- ʻOumuamua
- Pan-STARRS
- C/2011 L4
- C/2012 K1
- 311P/PanSTARRS
- C/2014 Q1
- C/2015 ER61
- C/2017 K2
- Pereyra
- Pojmański
- Ryves
- Seki
- Seki–Lines
- Siding Spring
- C/2007 Q3
- C/2013 A1
- Skjellerup–Maristany
- Skorichenko–George
- SOHO
- Southern
- Spacewatch–Rabinowitz
- Stonehouse
- Sugano–Saigusa–Fujikawa
- Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori
- SWAN
- C/2006 M4
- C/2012 E2
- C/2020 F8
- Tago-Sato-Kosaka
- Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
- West
- White–Ortiz–Bolelli
- Wilson–Hubbard
- Yi–SWAN
- Zhu–Balam
- ZTF
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