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  • Thumbnail for Comet
    A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces...
    144 KB (15,286 words) - 17:43, 17 July 2024
  • Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than...
    36 KB (670 words) - 09:26, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halley's Comet
    Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years. It last appeared...
    109 KB (11,061 words) - 01:31, 7 September 2024
  • processor families. Intel announced low-power mobile Comet Lake-U CPUs on August 21, 2019, H-series mobile CPUs on April 2, 2020, desktop Comet Lake-S CPUs...
    31 KB (813 words) - 08:24, 7 September 2024
  • numbered comets (1P–471P). There are 405 Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), 38 Encke-type comets (ETCs), 14 Halley-type comets (HTCs), five Chiron-type comets (CTCs)...
    109 KB (538 words) - 18:16, 31 August 2024
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    its first two years, it was marketed as the "Comet" and from 1962 as the "Mercury Comet". The compact Comet shared a naming convention associated with the...
    30 KB (3,232 words) - 06:58, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comet Kohoutek
    Comet Kohoutek (formally designated C/1973 E1 and formerly as 1973 XII and 1973f) is a comet that passed close to the Sun towards the end of 1973. Early...
    109 KB (11,771 words) - 23:14, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
    67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (abbreviated as 67P or 67P/C–G) is a Jupiter-family comet. It is originally from the Kuiper belt and has an orbital period of 6...
    71 KB (5,594 words) - 18:31, 15 August 2024
  • Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the...
    47 KB (5,510 words) - 23:49, 16 July 2024
  • comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen)...
    39 KB (1,181 words) - 08:13, 24 September 2023
  • Caesar's Comet (also Sidus Iulium ("Julian Star"); Caesaris astrum ("Star of Caesar"); Comet Caesar; the Great Comet of 44 BC; numerical designation C/−43...
    17 KB (1,934 words) - 21:33, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comet (marque)
    Comet is a defunct American automobile brand of compact cars marketed by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company from 1960 to 1961. Comet vehicles...
    15 KB (1,313 words) - 07:05, 29 July 2024
  • Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (or simply The Great Comet) is a sung-through musical adaptation of a 70-page segment from Leo Tolstoy's 1869...
    55 KB (4,740 words) - 18:57, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biela's Comet
    Biela's Comet or Comet Biela (official designation: 3D/Biela) was a periodic Jupiter-family comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and...
    20 KB (2,066 words) - 02:52, 30 August 2024
  • Night of the Comet is a 1984 American science fiction comedy horror film written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. It stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert...
    19 KB (2,193 words) - 20:39, 15 September 2024
  • "The Blue Comet" is the 85th and penultimate episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos, the eighth episode of the second half of the show's sixth...
    40 KB (4,552 words) - 13:22, 8 September 2024
  • The Great Comet of 372–371 BC (sometimes Aristotle's Comet) was a comet that is thought to possibly be the source of the Kreutz sungrazer family. The Great...
    10 KB (1,284 words) - 02:31, 15 September 2024
  • Comet Electricals Limited, trading as Comet, is an online electrical retail chain based in the United Kingdom. The company sells consumer electronics...
    45 KB (5,138 words) - 09:19, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comet nucleus
    The nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, formerly termed a dirty snowball or an icy dirtball. A cometary nucleus is composed of rock, dust,...
    51 KB (5,358 words) - 17:33, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comet (fish)
    The comet or marine betta (Calloplesiops altivelis) is a species of reef-associated tropical marine fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae, most commonly...
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