Comets have been observed for over 2,000 years. During that time, several different systems have been used to assign names to each comet, and as a result many comets have more than one name.
They found that the orbits of many comets don't produce showers useful for prediction, but in 17 cases, the showers could be used to identify comets months or years before they would typically be ...
Researchers say the scale of Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which has a mass of 500 trillion tons, is significant because it provides a clue about the size range of other comets orbiting in the distant ...
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