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Chronological list of periodic comets
(except short period comets)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C/1577 V1 1577 I 27 Oct. 1577 0.178 1.0 first measure of parallax C/1680 V1 "Kirch's comet" 1680 18 Dec. 1680 0.0062 1.000 grazing comet to the Sun C/1729 P1 "Sarabat's comet" 1729 16 Jun. 1829 4.05 1.0 especially bright from itself C/1743 X1 "Chéseaux's comet" 1744 1 Mar. 1744 0.222 1.0 D/1770 L1 Lexell 1770 I 14 Aug. 1770 0.67 0.786 5.6 passage at 0.015 AU from the Earth C/1811 F1 Great comet 1811 I 12 Sep. 1811 1.04 0.995 C/1819 N1 Great comet 1819 II 28 Jun. 1819 0.342 1.0 first observation of polarisation C/1843 D1 Great March comet 1843 I 27 Feb. 1843 0.0055 0.999 513 grazing comet to the Sun C/1858 L1 Donati 1858 VI 30 Sep. 1858 0.58 0.996 C/1861 J1 Great comet 1861 II 12 Jun. 1861 0.82 0.985 409 C/1864 N1 Tempel 1864 II 16 Aug. 1864 0.91 0.996 first observations of spectra C/1868 L1 Winnecke 1868 II 26 Jun. 1868 0.58 1.0 C/1874 H1 Coggia 1874 III 1874c 9 Jul. 1874 0.68 0.998 C/1881 K1 Great comet 1881 III 1881b 16 Jun. 1881 0.73 0.996 C/1882 R1 Great September comet 1882 II 1882b 17 Sep. 1882 0.00775 0.9999 759 grazing comet to the Sun C/1887 B1 Great southern comet 1887 I 1887a 11 Jan. 1887 0.0048 1.0 grazing comet to the Sun C/1901 G1 Great comet 1901 I 1901a 24 Apr. 1901 0.245 1.0 C/1907 L2 Daniel 1907 IV 1907d 4 Oct. 1907 0.512 0.999 C/1908 R1 Morehouse 1908 III 1908c 26 Dec. 1908 0.945 1.0007 C/1910 A1 Great January comet 1910 I 1910a 17 Jan. 1910 0.129 0.9999 C/1911 O1 Brooks 1911 V 1911c 28 Oct. 1911 0.49 0.997 C/1927 X1 Skjellerup-Maristany 1927 IX 1927k 18 Dec. 1927 0.176 0.9998 C/1940 R2 Cunningham 1941 I 1940c 16 Jan. 1941 0.368 1.0005 C/1947 X1 Southern comet 1947 XII 1947n 2 Dec. 1947 0.110 0.9995 C/1948 V1 Eclipse comet 1948 XI 1948l 27 Oct. 1948 0.135 0.99994 C/1956 R1 Arend-Roland 1957 III 1956h 8 Apr. 1957 0.316 1.0002 C/1957 P1 Mrkos 1957 V 1957d 1 Jul. 1957 0.355 0.9994 C/1969 Y1 Burnham 1960 II 1959k 29 Mar. 1960 0.355 0.9994 C/1961 R1 Humason 1962 VIII 1961e 10 Dec. 1962 2.13 0.990 C/1965 S1 Ikeya-Seki 1965 VIII 1965f 21 Oct. 1965 0.00779 0.99992 grazing comet to the Sun C/1969 Y1 Bennett 1970 II 1969i 20 Mar. 1970 0.538 0.996 C/1973 E1 Kohoutek 1973 XII 1973f 28 Dec. 1973 0.142 1.000 international campaign of observations C/1975 V1 West 1976 VI 1975n 25 Feb. 1976 0.197 1.000 C/1980 E1 Bowell 1982 I 1980b 12 Mar. 1982 3.364 1.057 active even far from the Sun C/1983 J1 Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa 1983 V 1983e 1 Apr. 1983 0.471 1.000 close approach to Earth at 0.063 AU C/1983 H1 IRAS-Araki-Alcock 1983 VII 1983d 21 May 1983 0.991 0.990 close approach to Earth at 0.031 AU C/1983 O1 Cernis 1983 XII 1983l 21 Jul. 1983 3.33 1.002 active at more than 20 AU from the Sun C/1986 P1 Wilson 1987 VII 1986l 20 Apr. 1987 1.200 1.0003 C/1989 X1 Austin 1990 V 1989c1 10 Apr. 1990 0.350 1.0002 C/1990 K1 Levy 1990 XX 1990c 24 Oct. 1990 0.939 1.0004 D/1993 F2 Shoemaker-Levy 9 1994 X 1993e broken by Jupiter and crasing on this planet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake 1 May 1996 0.230 0.9998 9000. close approach to the Earth at 0.10 AU C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp 1 Apr. 1997 0.914 0.995 2400. very active campaign of observations C/1999 S4 LINEAR 26 Jul. 2000 0.765 0.9994 broken nucleaus at perihelion ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) official designation (b) designation folowing the old nomenclature (c) provisional designation (d) date of the passage at perihelion (e) distance to the Sun at perihelion in Astronomical Units (AU) (f) eccentricity (g) period in years (h) comments |