Category:Comets
Internationalization
العربية: المذنبات
· Беларуская (тарашкевіца): Камэты
· Dansk: Kometer
· Deutsch: Kometen
· English: Comets
· Español: Cometas
· Esperanto: Kometoj
· Français : Comètes
· हिन्दी: धूमकेतु
· Ido: Kometoj
· Interlingua: Cometas
· Íslenska: Halastjörnur
· Italiano: Comete
· Magyar: Üstökösök
· Nederlands: Kometen
· Norsk bokmål: Kometer
· Norsk nynorsk: Kometar
· Polski: Komety
· Português: Cometas
· Română: Comete
· සිංහල: වල්ගාතරු
· Svenska: Kometer
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Comet
[edit]A comet is a small, icy solar system body that is comprised of leftover debris from the formation of the solar system. Comets are composed of various ices, dust and rock. Volatile ices and dust often outgas from the comet forming a coma and a tail when it nears the Sun due to the solar heating.
Subcategories
This category has the following 122 subcategories, out of 122 total.
- Animations of comets (42 F)
- Videos of comets (9 F)
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- (248370) 2005 QN173 (1 F)
- (300163) 2006 VW139 (2 F)
- (323137) 2003 BM80 (1 F)
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- Comet Arend-Roland (14 F)
B
- Comet Bennett (17 F)
- C/1893 U1 (Brooks) (8 F)
C
- C/-43 K1 (Komet Caesar) (7 F)
- C/1807 R1 (40 F)
- C/1845 L1 (4 F)
- C/1874 H1 (Coggia) (12 F)
- C/1881 K1 (18 F)
- C/1892 E1 (Swift) (8 F)
- C/1910 A1 (10 F)
- C/1911 O1 (Brooks) (8 F)
- C/1957 P1 (Mrkos) (8 F)
- C/1980 E1 (3 F)
- C/1986 P1 (Wilson) (3 F)
- C/1989 X1 (Austin) (7 F)
- C/1990 K1 (Levy) (7 F)
- C/1995 Q1 (14 F)
- C/1998 P1 (Williams) (4 F)
- C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) (12 F)
- C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) (6 F)
- C/2001 A2 (4 F)
- C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) (1 P, 12 F)
- C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) (8 F)
- C/2002 V1 (4 F)
- C/2006 M4 (2 F)
- C/2006 VZ13 (3 F)
- C/2006 W3 (6 F)
- C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) (3 F)
- C/2007 Q3 (2 F)
- C/2009 P1 (5 F)
- C/2010 X1 (3 F)
- C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) (66 F)
- C/2012 F6 (15 F)
- C/2012 K1 (6 F)
- C/2012 S1 (75 F)
- C/2013 A1 (40 F)
- C/2013 R1 (13 F)
- C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) (6 F)
- C/2013 US10 (Catalina) (18 F)
- C/2014 E2 (8 F)
- C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) (5 F)
- C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (48 F)
- C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS) (6 F)
- C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS) (2 F)
- C/2015 V2 (Johnson) (6 F)
- C/2016 R2 (14 F)
- C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (11 F)
- C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) (4 F)
- C/2017 T1 (Heinze) (2 F)
- C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) (7 F)
- C/2018 C2 (3 F)
- C/2018 F4 (PANSTARRS) (3 F)
- C/2018 V1 (3 F)
- C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) (8 F)
- C/2019 U6 (4 F)
- C/2019 Y1 (4 F)
- C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) (31 F)
- C/2020 F8 (SWAN) (5 F)
- C/2021 A1 (Leonard) (34 F)
- C/2023 H2 (Lemmon) (3 F)
- C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) (26 F)
- C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) (81 F)
- C/2024 Y1 (Mašek) (2 F)
- C/2025 F2 (SWAN) (6 F)
- Coma (cometary) (20 F)
- Comet of 1556 (4 F)
- Comet tails (32 F)
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- Comet Donati (68 F)
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- Exocomets (12 F)
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- Great Comet of 1577 (1 P, 13 F)
- Great Comet of 1618 (9 F)
- Great Comet of 1664 (12 F)
- Great Comet of 1665 (1 F)
- Great Comet of 1680 (19 F)
- Great Comet of 1744 (15 F)
- Great Comet of 1811 (26 F)
- Great Comet of 1843 (13 F)
- Great Comet of 1861 (23 F)
- Great Comet of 1901 (4 F)
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- Comet Hale-Bopp (151 F)
- Comet Humason (7 F)
- Comet Hyakutake (90 F)
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- Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock (6 F)
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- Comet Kohoutek (30 F)
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- Comet Lulin (8 F)
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- Comet Machholz (1 P, 22 F)
- Comet Morehouse (19 F)
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- Comets in Paris (3 F)
- Comet Pojmański (2 F)
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- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (172 F)
- Comet Stearns (empty)
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- Comet Tago-Sato-Kosaka (6 F)
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- Comet West (C/1975 V1) (16 F)
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- Gallery pages of comets (5 P)
Media in category "Comets"
The following 200 files are in this category, out of 210 total.
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De-Komet.ogg 1.6 s; 18 KB
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De-Komet2.ogg 1.5 s; 16 KB
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De-Schweifstern2.ogg 1.8 s; 18 KB
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1764 Messier Comet Star Chart.jpg 1,267 × 988; 332 KB
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1823comet.jpg 187 × 184; 13 KB
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2023-07-24 C2023 E1 Atlas J87.png 5,984 × 3,975; 44.18 MB
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3I comet CO2-H2O mixing ratios Cordiner et al. 2025 Fig 6.png 698 × 496; 146 KB
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3I comet nickel production rates Rahatgaonkar et al. 2025 Fig 2.png 3,551 × 2,352; 494 KB
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A413 1992-01-24 C1991 Y1 Zanotta-Brewington.jpg 1,920 × 1,440; 371 KB
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An Infrared portrait of Comet NEOWISE (C2014 C3).jpg 1,148 × 1,148; 149 KB
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Anticoda.JPG 960 × 720; 65 KB
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Anticola.JPG 960 × 720; 64 KB
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Astronomical Diagrams RMG L1073-009.tiff 4,800 × 3,981; 54.67 MB
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Astronomical Telegram John Ritchie.jpg 846 × 547; 79 KB
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B7828b 1957-10-20 1957f Latyshev-Wild-Burnham.jpg 1,883 × 1,412; 460 KB
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Birdbearcomet.png 366 × 125; 5 KB
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Bradfield after.JPG 2,478 × 3,265; 1.23 MB
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Bradfield.JPG 2,456 × 2,867; 1.4 MB
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C-2014 OG392 LDT 2020-10-14.png 1,081 × 1,081; 180 KB
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C1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly) on 9 June 1898.jpg 1,385 × 1,080; 830 KB
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C1899 E1 (Swift) on 18 May - 5 June 1899.jpg 1,080 × 1,247; 720 KB
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C1899 E1 (Swift) on 8-10 May 1899.jpg 1,080 × 1,661; 996 KB
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C1905 X1 (Giacobini) on 1905-Dec-29.jpg 1,080 × 1,453; 235 KB
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C1911 S2 (Quenisset) on 24 September 1911.jpg 2,193 × 1,514; 1.94 MB
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C1935 A1 (Johnson) on 27 February 1935.jpg 1,080 × 805; 311 KB
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C1954 O2 (Baade) on 26 November 1955.jpg 1,080 × 1,122; 75 KB
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C1960 Y1 (Candy).jpg 966 × 765; 194 KB
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C1978 R3 (Machholz) ESO-1978-09-14.jpg 1,080 × 1,046; 175 KB
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C1998 K1 - C1998 M2 (2MASS).jpg 871 × 507; 257 KB
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C2012 L2 2013-2-19 ImageDownload-1-irsakuops-ptf-5f5c5ffb54-zlwjw---1.png 1,202 × 1,198; 380 KB
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C2012X1 2014-05-18 image WISE-Band-1.png 759 × 580; 203 KB
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C2014Q3 2014-11-27 NEOWISE image 3-color.png 831 × 654; 376 KB
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C2015D1-SOHO.jpg 481 × 360; 29 KB
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C2015K7.png 500 × 500; 72 KB
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C2016U1 2016-11-21 NEOWISE image 3-color.png 746 × 588; 239 KB
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C2018 W2 (Africano) 2019-08-29 NEOWISE image 3-color.png 746 × 588; 171 KB
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C2018N2 2019-11-11 image ZTF-sso-694-zr-size-500.0arcsec.png 831 × 672; 558 KB
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C2019 J2 2019-07-02 image ZTF-sso-876-zr-fov-4.0arcmin.png 831 × 672; 198 KB
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C2020 A2 2020-02-19 image ZTF-sso-828-zg-fov-7.0arcmin.png 831 × 672; 641 KB
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C2020 F5 2021-09-27 image ZTF-sso-242-zr-fov-13arcmin.png 831 × 672; 679 KB
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C2020 T2 2021-05-12 image ZTF-sso-627-zr-size-9.0arcmin.png 759 × 580; 500 KB
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C2020R4 2021-04-02 image ZTF-sso-438-zr-size-9.0arcmin.png 759 × 572; 543 KB
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C2020S3 2020-11-14 image ZTF-sso-319-zr-fov-13arcmin.png 831 × 672; 634 KB
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C2021 T4 2022-12-21 image ZTF-sso-295-zg-fov-5.6arcmin.png 831 × 672; 490 KB
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C2021D1 (SWAN) 2021-04-03 image ZTF-sso-653-zr-size-6.4arcmin.png 759 × 580; 394 KB
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C2022 A2 2023-01-12 image ZTF-sso-796-zr-size-15arcmin.png 759 × 580; 515 KB
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C2022 R2 2022-10-06 image ZTF-sso-622-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png 759 × 580; 465 KB
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C2023X1 2023-11-11 image ZTF-sso-421-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png 759 × 580; 498 KB
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C2024 L5 2025-04-16 image ZTF-sso-271-zr-size-7.6arcmin.png 759 × 580; 481 KB
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C2025 A6 (Lemmon) 2025-08-23.jpg 2,950 × 2,212; 2.54 MB
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C2025 A6 (Lemmon) on 5 September 2025.jpg 2,897 × 2,173; 1.92 MB
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Clusters, Nebulae, and Comets.jpg 8,487 × 9,380; 22.43 MB
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Comet - C2020M3 - Atlas 15x60s ISO800 @ 2020.11.21.jpg 1,920 × 1,920; 2.47 MB
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Comet 1900 II (Borrelly-Brooks), 31 July.jpg 300 × 231; 15 KB
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Comet 1911 S3 Beljawsky.jpg 342 × 427; 21 KB
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Comet 1911 S3 Beljawsky.png 209 × 251; 3 KB
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Comet 1927k Skjellerup by Slipher.jpg 478 × 475; 87 KB
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Comet 1927k Skjellerup photo.jpg 475 × 478; 98 KB
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Comet 1947n.jpg 531 × 690; 82 KB
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Comet 1948l.jpg 1,000 × 777; 241 KB
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Comet 1951a (Pajdusakova).jpg 372 × 358; 59 KB
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Comet 1958e Burnham-Slaughter.jpg 393 × 453; 28 KB
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Comet 1959f Alcock - Roemer.jpg 690 × 488; 27 KB
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Comet 1974b Bradfield 1974-03-23.jpg 650 × 189; 22 KB
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Comet Alcock 1963b.jpg 725 × 585; 139 KB
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Comet Barnard-Denning.jpg 739 × 602; 31 KB
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Comet Bradfield 1978c.jpg 612 × 420; 47 KB
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Comet Brandfield 6-2-1980 3 00 (UT) by JOCR.jpg 1,167 × 535; 157 KB
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Comet Brooks 1886.jpg 586 × 584; 59 KB
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Comet Burnham 1959k.jpg 322 × 424; 77 KB
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Comet C-1937 N1 Finsler.jpg 450 × 570; 62 KB
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Comet C1947 S1 (Bester).jpg 300 × 207; 9 KB
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Comet C1997 J2 (2MASS).jpg 437 × 431; 119 KB
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Comet C2007F1 (LONEOS) by STEREO - 20071029 120921 s4h2A.jpg 1,024 × 1,024; 560 KB
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Comet C2020 V2 (ZTF) and the southern Pinwheel Galaxy.png 1,300 × 1,730; 3.92 MB
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Comet Components.jpg 909 × 723; 121 KB
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Comet Daniel - 1907.jpg 2,600 × 2,549; 1.58 MB
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Comet Diagram text stripped.png 410 × 277; 21 KB
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Comet Dodwell-Forbes (1932 n).jpg 695 × 274; 126 KB
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Comet dust microscopic photo.jpg 545 × 400; 63 KB
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Comet Fabry.jpg 1,453 × 1,189; 432 KB
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Comet fr.svg 1,240 × 720; 53 KB
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Comet Gale.jpg 1,932 × 2,423; 1,019 KB
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Comet Grigg-Mellish 1907b trail by E.E. Barnard.jpg 377 × 498; 45 KB
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Comet Honda (1955g).jpg 1,197 × 762; 366 KB
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Comet icon.svg 48 × 48; 4 KB
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Comet Ikeya 1963a by R. Burnham, Jr.jpg 602 × 870; 148 KB
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Comet Ikeya 1963a.jpg 722 × 642; 121 KB
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Comet Ikeya 1964f.jpg 482 × 624; 121 KB
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Comet Kiess 1911b.jpg 1,760 × 2,504; 566 KB
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Comet Kobayashi-Berger-Milon JOCR 10 day collage i.jpg 860 × 1,087; 269 KB
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Comet Kosik-Peltier f.25.jpg 1,657 × 1,218; 272 KB
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Comet Mellish 1915.jpg 515 × 752; 86 KB
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Comet Mellish 1917 The Week (Brisbane) 11 May 1917 page 21.jpg 1,086 × 611; 240 KB
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Comet Mrkos 1955e.jpg 677 × 841; 159 KB
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Comet Oukaimeden 20140926 160901 s4h1B circle.jpg 1,024 × 1,024; 164 KB
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Comet Paraskevopoulos 1941c.jpg 1,000 × 901; 139 KB
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Comet Parts.jpg 1,449 × 2,000; 643 KB
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Comet Parts.svg 1,942 × 2,679; 525 KB
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Comet Peltier 1936a July 12.jpg 671 × 826; 243 KB
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Comet Peltier 1936a.jpg 523 × 652; 136 KB
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Comet Physical Structure.svg 709 × 531; 188 KB
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Comet Seki 1961.jpg 358 × 482; 10 KB
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Comet Seki-Lines.jpg 506 × 863; 136 KB
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Comet Shajn.jpg 427 × 423; 19 KB
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Comet Stearns 1927-03-13.jpg 576 × 477; 97 KB
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Comet tail diagram.jpg 900 × 600; 164 KB
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Comet van Gent-Peltier.jpg 460 × 262; 61 KB
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Comet Whipple 1942a.jpg 371 × 372; 83 KB
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Comet Whipple-Fedtke-Tevzadze (1942f).jpg 587 × 582; 177 KB
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Comet Wilk 1929d.jpg 873 × 1,146; 115 KB
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Comet Wilk 1930c.jpg 922 × 497; 184 KB
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Comet Wilk-Peltier.jpg 1,431 × 936; 223 KB
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Comet-pl.svg 1,240 × 720; 237 KB
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Comet.svg 1,240 × 720; 284 KB
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Cometa Bakharev-Macfarlane-Krienke (1955f).jpg 1,202 × 770; 387 KB
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Cometa Honda-Bernasconi.jpg 1,142 × 735; 325 KB
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Cometa.png 999 × 671; 316 KB
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CometDiagram.png 410 × 277; 16 KB
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Comete of 1729.jpg 3,500 × 2,842; 7.16 MB
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Cometorbit (1).png 623 × 354; 39 KB
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Cometorbit japanese.png 623 × 354; 666 KB
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Cometorbit Workaround.svg 512 × 291; 8 KB
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Cometorbit-ru.svg 623 × 354; 263 KB
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Cometorbit.png 623 × 354; 33 KB
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Cometorbit.svg 623 × 354; 23 KB
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Cometorbit01.svg 623 × 354; 260 KB
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Comets WISE.jpg 3,754 × 3,004; 1.21 MB
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Comparison of Comet Nucleus Sizes (2022-020).png 2,056 × 1,016; 2.1 MB
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Comparison of Comet Nucleus Sizes (2022-020).tiff 4,111 × 2,031; 7.19 MB
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Comète 8.svg 199 × 198; 9 KB
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Comète Gale, 1912 a.jpg 1,822 × 1,503; 344 KB
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Comète Orkisz (1925 c).jpg 1,319 × 1,667; 297 KB
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Comète Van Gent (1941 d).jpg 1,643 × 2,013; 878 KB
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D203 1907-11-05 1907e Mellish.jpg 5,184 × 3,888; 7.17 MB
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D4306 1932-08-31 1932k Peltier-Whipple.jpg 1,907 × 1,430; 725 KB
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D673 1910-03-09 1909a Borrelly-Daniel.jpg 2,171 × 1,628; 1.41 MB
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Delavan comet.jpg 503 × 769; 304 KB
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Diagram from 'Discorso delle Comete' by Galileo Galilei and Mari Guiducci.jpg 1,337 × 1,676; 384 KB
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Euler diagram of solar system bodies-de.svg 635 × 490; 18 KB
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Finsler Comet 05 01 000094 AP1.jpg 6,000 × 6,227; 7.17 MB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects (gemini1408a).tiff 1,417 × 680; 1.09 MB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects (gemini1408b).jpg 1,417 × 1,049; 362 KB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects (gemini1408b).tiff 1,417 × 1,049; 1.48 MB
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First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects - Gemini1408a.jpg 1,417 × 680; 226 KB
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Fotothek df tg 0006480 Theosophie ^ Philosophie ^ Astronomie ^ Komet.jpg 519 × 820; 189 KB
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General direction of cometary tails.jpg 468 × 180; 44 KB
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Great Comet of 1819 from Kendall.jpg 963 × 574; 339 KB
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Hy-Գիսաստղ (Comet).ogg 3 min 59 s; 9.48 MB
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Jer-Conmète.ogg 0.8 s; 11 KB
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JpegPIA13576.jpg 2,999 × 2,249; 259 KB
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On Comets (IA jstor-30002865).pdf 1,100 × 1,625; 211 KB
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On the Appearance and Motions of Comets (IA jstor-30004321).pdf 1,100 × 1,625; 263 KB
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Komeetan rakenne.jpg 800 × 600; 64 KB
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Kometenbahn.jpg 1,080 × 1,080; 193 KB
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Largest comets size comparison.png 2,000 × 1,200; 1.43 MB
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Location of Kuiper Belt Comets (1995-26-309).pdf 1,275 × 1,650; 664 KB
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Location of Kuiper Belt Comets (1995-26-309).tiff 532 × 446; 236 KB
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Loneos hi2a.jpg 444 × 445; 137 KB
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Lubná (RA), planetární stezka, Komety, Halleyova kometa.jpg 2,471 × 3,193; 1.29 MB
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Medal Ds du toit.gif 1,636 × 1,634; 1.29 MB
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Mid-IR spectra of comets and protoplanetary discs (eso0435c).jpg 788 × 812; 132 KB
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Mid-IR spectra of comets and protoplanetary discs (eso0435c).tiff 788 × 812; 218 KB
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Notes on comet a 1882 PLATE IV.jpg 858 × 1,328; 108 KB
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Notes on comet a 1882 PLATE V.jpg 904 × 1,322; 108 KB
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Number of Minor Planets and Comets visited by spacecraft.png 723 × 440; 16 KB
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Nyotamkia na mkia wake.png 410 × 277; 17 KB
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Objects between sun and alpha centauri.jpg 10,800 × 1,080; 4.78 MB
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P2016P5.png 500 × 500; 75 KB
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Philosophical Transactions Vol LXXVII Tab 1 Page 4.jpg 3,236 × 2,400; 490 KB
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Photographie de la comète Quenisset (1911).jpg 2,309 × 1,815; 4.1 MB
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PIA12985 M3 & Comet Garradd.jpg 2,349 × 1,000; 194 KB
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PIA22419-Neowise-1stFourYearsDataFromDec2013-20180420.gif 730 × 548; 3.54 MB
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PSM V76 D015 Tailess comet of 684 in the pleiades.png 1,233 × 574; 86 KB
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Schéma comète.svg 744 × 1,052; 16 KB
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Small bodies of the Solar System.jpg 10,256 × 5,786; 11.84 MB
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Solar System in Thai Sign Language.png 2,459 × 1,739; 293 KB
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SolarSystemNoMoons.PNG 666 × 36; 11 KB
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Structure d'une comète.png 2,000 × 2,000; 1.32 MB
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Structure of a comet.jpg 2,000 × 2,000; 852 KB
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The elements of astronomy; a textbook (1919) (14779902094).jpg 2,032 × 2,708; 1.47 MB
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The synchrone-syndine analysis.jpg 409 × 263; 62 KB
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Trajectoire-d'une-comète.jpg 250 × 369; 33 KB
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Uncertain size-frequency distribution of interstellar visitors.jpg 2,567 × 1,817; 606 KB
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Uranography. and Atlas (1850) (14802976163).jpg 1,960 × 3,164; 1.08 MB
