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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ATLAS

C/2021 S1 (ATLAS)

Comet

-6,397.58 AU from Sun

PANSTARRS

C/2012 A1 (PANSTARRS)

Comet

-6,363.77 AU from Sun

Skiff

C/1999 J2 (Skiff)

Comet

-6,339.05 AU from Sun

Machholz

C/1978 R3 (Machholz)

Comet

-6,294.76 AU from Sun

Lemmon

C/2018 U1 (Lemmon)

Comet

-6,188.36 AU from Sun

Schuster

C/1976 D2 (Schuster)

Comet

-6,145.36 AU from Sun

Leonard

C/2021 A1 (Leonard)

Comet

-6,122.88 AU from Sun

TESS

C/2018 S3 (TESS)

Comet

-6,079.31 AU from Sun

Borisov

C/2021 L3 (Borisov)

Comet

-5,980.2 AU from Sun

LINEAR

C/1999 K8 (LINEAR)

Comet

-5,895.87 AU from Sun

Brooks

C/1890 F1 (Brooks)

Comet

-5,684.23 AU from Sun

PANSTARRS

C/2020 S4 (PANSTARRS)

Comet

-5,488.35 AU from Sun

Meunier-Dupouy

C/1997 J2 (Meunier-Dupouy)

Comet

-5,465.17 AU from Sun

LINEAR

C/1998 W3 (LINEAR)

Comet

-5,463.13 AU from Sun

McNaught

C/2006 E1 (McNaught)

Comet

-5,384.8 AU from Sun

Lemmon

C/2019 Q1 (Lemmon)

Comet

-5,380.82 AU from Sun

PANSTARRS

C/2021 S3 (PANSTARRS)

Comet

-5,378.33 AU from Sun

Catalina

C/2013 L2 (Catalina)

Comet

-5,253.16 AU from Sun

Skorichenko-George

C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko-George)

Comet

-5,207.17 AU from Sun

LINEAR

C/2002 J5 (LINEAR)

Comet

-5,000.91 AU from Sun

LINEAR

C/2003 O1 (LINEAR)

Comet

-4,930.31 AU from Sun

SONEAR

C/2014 A4 (SONEAR)

Comet

-4,890.46 AU from Sun

Groeller

C/2025 D1 (Groeller)

Comet

-4,816.72 AU from Sun

PANSTARRS

C/2017 Y2 (PANSTARRS)

Comet

-4,804.9 AU from Sun