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    Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on 7 August 2006 by British-Australian...
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  • Comet C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell) is a long (time) period comet that reached a maximum magnitude of 6.5 (just below naked eye level) in early 1994. It...
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  • Comet McNaught can refer to any one of more than 50 comets discovered by the astronomer Robert H. McNaught. C/1987 U3 C/2005 E2 C/2005 L2 C/2005 L3 C/2005...
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  • C/2013 O3 McNaught has discovered 26 short-period comets: 191P/McNaught 220P/McNaught 254P/McNaught 260P/McNaught 278P/McNaught P/2004 R1 (McNaught) P/2005...
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    C/2009 R1 (McNaught), one of more than fifty comets known as Comet McNaught, is a non-periodic comet discovered by British-Australian astronomer Robert...
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  • C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley) is a near-parabolic long-period comet, discovered by Robert McNaught and Malcolm Hartley at the Siding Spring Observatory...
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    with a comet". Astronomy. October 2, 2007. Neugebauer; et al. (2007). "Encounter of the Ulysses Spacecraft with the Ion Tail of Comet MCNaught". The Astrophysical...
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  • P/2011 P1 (McNaught) was a Jupiter-family comet that passed extremely close to Jupiter on 4 December 2010 and disintegrated by 2012. It was discovered...
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    Bennett – 1970 Comet West – 1976 Comet Hyakutake – 1996 Comet Hale–Bopp – 1997 Comet McNaught – 2007 Comet Lovejoy – 2011 A winter comet reported by Ephorus...
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    "Great Moments in Comet History: Comet McNaught". Hubblesite. Retrieved 15 August 2013. Mobberley, Martin (2010). Hunting and Imaging Comets. Springer. p. 34...
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    Ulysses (spacecraft) (category Missions to comets)
    observations of Jupiter. In 2007, Ulysses passed through the tail of comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught). The results were surprisingly different from its pass through...
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  • McNaught or MacNaught or Macnaught is a Scottish surname deriving from MacNeachdan which is a Gaelic patronymic for the Pictish name Nechdan meaning 'Pure'...
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    spacecraft Ulysses unexpectedly traversed the tail of Comet McNaught. Schechner Genuth, Sara (1999). Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology...
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  • numbered comets (1P–471P). There are 405 Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), 38 Encke-type comets (ETCs), 14 Halley-type comets (HTCs), five Chiron-type comets (CTCs)...
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  • 130P/McNaught–Hughes is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It takes 6.65 years to orbit the Sun and is 4.2 km in diameter. "JPL Small-Body Database...
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    comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) with a value of 1.000019. As Hale–Bopp's value is less than 1, its orbit is elliptical and it will return. Comet McNaught has...
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    Hills cloud (category Comets)
    around 1,800 AU. Comet Hyakutake, discovered in 1996 by amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake, has an outbound aphelion of 3,500 AU. Comet McNaught, discovered...
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  • Great Comet of 2011)
    sungrazing comet ever observed by SOHO, and the brightest comet to appear since Comet McNaught of 2007, which shone at visual magnitude –5.5. Nevertheless...
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    Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for...
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