Icy visitors

Comets

Balls of ice and dust on long, elongated orbits that grow tails as they near the Sun — from short-period regulars like Halley to one-time passers-by.

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Lemmon

C/2017 F1 (Lemmon)

Comet

-1,095.33 AU from Sun

Mueller

C/1993 F1 (Mueller)

Comet

-1,092.16 AU from Sun

ATLAS

C/2019 M3 (ATLAS)

Comet

-1,091.71 AU from Sun

Lemmon

C/2018 C2 (Lemmon)

Comet

-1,083.01 AU from Sun

Rudnicki

C/1966 T1 (Rudnicki)

Comet

-1,074.39 AU from Sun

Siding Spring

C/2006 HW51 (Siding Spring)

Comet

-1,072.96 AU from Sun

van Gent

C/1944 K2 (van Gent)

Comet

-1,067.59 AU from Sun

PANSTARRS

C/2014 Y1 (PANSTARRS)

Comet

-1,065.46 AU from Sun

Morehouse

C/1908 R1 (Morehouse)

Comet

-1,058.05 AU from Sun

Mueller

C/1993 A1 (Mueller)

Comet

-1,052.46 AU from Sun

Wierzchos

C/2020 H3 (Wierzchos)

Comet

-1,038.57 AU from Sun

ATLAS-Africano

C/2019 F1 (ATLAS-Africano)

Comet

-1,030.65 AU from Sun

Swift

C/1899 E1 (Swift)

Comet

-1,004.04 AU from Sun

Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto

C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto)

Comet

-990.65 AU from Sun

Mueller

C/1991 X2 (Mueller)

Comet

-987.13 AU from Sun

PANSTARRS

C/2023 R1-B (PANSTARRS)

Comet

-985.15 AU from Sun

McNaught

C/2009 R1 (McNaught)

Comet

-980.36 AU from Sun

Johnson

C/2015 V2 (Johnson)

Comet

-961.43 AU from Sun

Hill

C/2008 J6 (Hill)

Comet

-937.19 AU from Sun

Jensen-Shoemaker

C/1987 W3 (Jensen-Shoemaker)

Comet

-924.98 AU from Sun

Hoenig

C/2002 O4 (Hoenig)

Comet

-907.29 AU from Sun

SOHO

C/1998 J1 (SOHO)

Comet

-889.89 AU from Sun

Haro-Chavira

C/1954 Y1 (Haro-Chavira)

Comet

-885.74 AU from Sun

Alcock

C/1959 Q1 (Alcock)

Comet

-878.81 AU from Sun