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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Bok
C/2024 E2 (Bok)
- 51.96 AU from Sun
- 374.5 years orbit
Meier
C/1979 S1 (Meier)
- 53.03 AU from Sun
- 386.2 years orbit
Skiff
C/2001 S1 (Skiff)
- 53.46 AU from Sun
- 390.9 years orbit
ATLAS
C/2018 E1 (ATLAS)
- 54.49 AU from Sun
- 402.2 years orbit
Great comet
C/1861 J1 (Great comet)
- 55.08 AU from Sun
- 409 years orbit
Mueller
C/1994 E1 (Mueller)
- 55.34 AU from Sun
- 411.6 years orbit
Brooks
C/1886 H1 (Brooks)
- 55.49 AU from Sun
- 413.4 years orbit
Ferris
C/2000 J1 (Ferris)
- 55.59 AU from Sun
- 414.5 years orbit
Catalina-Spacewatch
C/2013 PE67 (Catalina-Spacewatch)
- 55.64 AU from Sun
- 415.1 years orbit
Thatcher
C/1861 G1 (Thatcher)
- 55.68 AU from Sun
- 415 years orbit
PANSTARRS
C/2014 G3 (PANSTARRS)
- 55.69 AU from Sun
- 415.6 years orbit
Spacewatch
C/2007 D2 (Spacewatch)
- 55.7 AU from Sun
- 415.7 years orbit
Ikeya
C/1964 N1 (Ikeya)
- 55.9 AU from Sun
- 417.9 years orbit
Perrine
C/1898 F1 (Perrine)
- 56.02 AU from Sun
- 419.3 years orbit
Hartley-Drinkwater
C/1995 Q2 (Hartley-Drinkwater)
- 56.38 AU from Sun
- 423.4 years orbit
Whipple-Paraskevopoulos
C/1940 O1 (Whipple-Paraskevopoulos)
- 56.49 AU from Sun
- 425 years orbit
PANSTARRS
C/2019 O2 (PANSTARRS)
- 57.34 AU from Sun
- 434.2 years orbit
Nishimura
C/2023 P1 (Nishimura)
- 57.77 AU from Sun
- 439.1 years orbit
LINEAR
C/2004 K3 (LINEAR)
- 58.12 AU from Sun
- 443.1 years orbit
Suzuki-Saigusa-Mori
C/1975 T2 (Suzuki-Saigusa-Mori)
- 58.2 AU from Sun
- 444.1 years orbit
Catalina
C/2005 N4 (Catalina)
- 58.49 AU from Sun
- 447.3 years orbit
LINEAR
C/2002 Q2 (LINEAR)
- 58.94 AU from Sun
- 452.5 years orbit
Helin-Lawrence
C/1992 Q2 (Helin-Lawrence)
- 58.95 AU from Sun
- 452.6 years orbit
Borisov
C/2020 Q1 (Borisov)
- 59.47 AU from Sun
- 458.6 years orbit