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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Hill
310P/Hill
- 4.16 AU from Sun
- 8.49 years orbit
LINEAR-Skiff
371P/LINEAR-Skiff
- 4.16 AU from Sun
- 8.5 years orbit
WISE
356P/WISE
- 4.16 AU from Sun
- 8.5 years orbit
Whipple
36P/Whipple
- Ø 4.56 km
- 4.16 AU from Sun
- 8.5 years orbit
Smirnova-Chernykh
74P/Smirnova-Chernykh
- Ø 4.46 km
- 4.17 AU from Sun
- 8.5 years orbit
Christensen
287P/Christensen
- 4.17 AU from Sun
- 8.51 years orbit
LINEAR
228P/LINEAR
- 4.17 AU from Sun
- 8.51 years orbit
PANSTARRS
P/2012 G1 (PANSTARRS)
- 4.17 AU from Sun
- 8.52 years orbit
McNaught
353P/McNaught
- 4.17 AU from Sun
- 8.52 years orbit
Yeung
172P/Yeung
- 4.18 AU from Sun
- 8.54 years orbit
Catalina
P/1999 XN120 (Catalina)
- 4.18 AU from Sun
- 8.55 years orbit
Attard-Maury
P/2021 U3 (Attard-Maury)
- 4.19 AU from Sun
- 8.58 years orbit
ATLAS
P/2025 C1 (ATLAS)
- 4.19 AU from Sun
- 8.59 years orbit
PANSTARRS
P/2021 HS (PANSTARRS)
- 4.2 AU from Sun
- 8.59 years orbit
Christensen
170P/Christensen
- 4.2 AU from Sun
- 8.61 years orbit
Mueller
136P/Mueller 3
- 4.2 AU from Sun
- 8.61 years orbit
Lemmon-PANSTARRS
P/2020 K9 (Lemmon-PANSTARRS)
- 4.2 AU from Sun
- 8.62 years orbit
LONEOS-Tucker
328P/LONEOS-Tucker
- 4.2 AU from Sun
- 8.62 years orbit
PANSTARRS
454P/PANSTARRS
- 4.21 AU from Sun
- 8.63 years orbit
LINEAR
333P/LINEAR
- 4.22 AU from Sun
- 8.67 years orbit
Boattini
340P/Boattini
- 4.24 AU from Sun
- 8.72 years orbit
PANSTARRS
P/2023 T1 (PANSTARRS)
- 4.24 AU from Sun
- 8.72 years orbit
Mueller
190P/Mueller
- 4.24 AU from Sun
- 8.74 years orbit
Schwassmann-Wachmann
31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2
- Ø 6.20 km
- 4.24 AU from Sun
- 8.74 years orbit