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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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Borisov

C/2014 Q3 (Borisov)

Comet
28.43 AU from Sun
151.6 years orbit

Bradfield

C/1984 A1 (Bradfield 1)

Comet
28.47 AU from Sun
151.9 years orbit

Lemmon

C/2023 S3 (Lemmon)

Comet
28.47 AU from Sun
151.9 years orbit

Catalina

C/2005 N5 (Catalina)

Comet
28.69 AU from Sun
153.6 years orbit

Herschel-Rigollet

35P/Herschel-Rigollet

Comet
28.84 AU from Sun
155 years orbit

McNaught

C/2012 Y3 (McNaught)

Comet
29.39 AU from Sun
159.3 years orbit

Weiland

C/2018 K1 (Weiland)

Comet
29.93 AU from Sun
163.7 years orbit

ATLAS

C/2024 M1 (ATLAS)

Comet
29.93 AU from Sun
163.8 years orbit

PANSTARRS

C/2017 X1 (PANSTARRS)

Comet
31.32 AU from Sun
175.2 years orbit

Wilk

C/1937 D1 (Wilk)

Comet
31.97 AU from Sun
180.8 years orbit

ATLAS

C/2024 A2 (ATLAS)

Comet
32.36 AU from Sun
184.1 years orbit

Bressi

C/2015 H1 (Bressi)

Comet
32.54 AU from Sun
185.6 years orbit

ATLAS

C/2022 Q2 (ATLAS)

Comet
32.8 AU from Sun
187.9 years orbit

Pons-Gambart

273P/Pons-Gambart

Comet
32.83 AU from Sun
188.1 years orbit

PANSTARRS

C/2025 X1 (PANSTARRS)

Comet
33.86 AU from Sun
197 years orbit

NEOWISE

C/2021 B3 (NEOWISE)

Comet
34.95 AU from Sun
206.7 years orbit

LINEAR

C/2016 A8 (LINEAR)

Comet
35.06 AU from Sun
207.6 years orbit

Kleyna

C/2019 LB7 (Kleyna)

Comet
35.12 AU from Sun
208.1 years orbit

Boattini

C/2010 J1 (Boattini)

Comet
36.72 AU from Sun
222.6 years orbit

Lemmon

C/2022 V2 (Lemmon)

Comet
36.85 AU from Sun
223.7 years orbit

LINEAR

C/2003 S4-A (LINEAR)

Comet
36.89 AU from Sun
224.1 years orbit

Attard-Maury

C/2022 N1 (Attard-Maury)

Comet
37.07 AU from Sun
225.7 years orbit

Sarneczky

C/2024 V2 (Sarneczky)

Comet
37.42 AU from Sun
229 years orbit

LINEAR

C/2012 Y1 (LINEAR)

Comet
37.94 AU from Sun
233.7 years orbit