Named Comets, Part 5
36 entries in the Named Comets, Part 5 compendium.
C/2026 A1 (MAPS)Farthest Kreutz sungrazer discovered; disintegrated hours before perihelion.C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell)Long-period comet possibly linked to a 6th-century apparition.Comet McNaughtThe brightest comet in over 40 years, visible in daylight.C/1957 P1 (Mrkos)A great comet discovered in 1957 with two distinct tails.C/2002 V1 (NEAT)Eighth-brightest comet since 1935, survived close perihelion.Comet NEOWISEThe brightest northern comet since Hale–Bopp, retroactively called the Great Comet of 2020.C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden)Dynamically new Oort cloud comet discovered in 2013.C/2020 T2 (Palomar)A non-periodic comet with a 5,530-year orbit discovered in 2020.C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)Non-periodic comet discovered in 2011, visible to the naked eye in March 2013.C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)Non-periodic comet with three tails after perihelion.C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)Inner Oort cloud comet with extreme eccentricity and orbit-changing Jupiter approach.C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)A carbon monoxide-rich comet with a blue coma and little water.C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)Farthest active inbound comet discovered, with a record-breaking distant coma.C/1862 N1 (Schmidt)Non-periodic comet with the 4th closest 19th-century Earth approach.Halley's CometThe first comet recognized as periodic, visible to the naked eye.Comet EnckeShortest-period bright comet, named after its orbit calculator.Biela's CometA periodic comet that split and vanished, leaving the Andromedid meteor shower.4P/FayeJupiter-family comet discovered in 1843 by Hervé Faye.6P/d'ArrestPeriodic comet discovered by Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest in 1851.7P/Pons–WinneckeJupiter-family comet parent of the June Boötids meteor shower.8P/TuttleA Jupiter-family comet that spawns the Ursid meteor shower.10P/TempelA Jupiter-family comet with a prominent dust trail.11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEARA periodic comet lost and recovered after nearly a century.12P/Pons–BrooksA bright Halley-type comet with a 71-year orbit.13P/OlbersHalley-type comet discovered by Heinrich Olbers in 1815.14P/WolfPeriodic comet discovered by Max Wolf in 1884.15P/FinlayJupiter-family comet with one of the smallest Earth-MOIDs.16P/BrooksJupiter-family comet that fragmented after discovery in 1889.Comet HolmesPeriodic comet known for its massive 2007 outburst.18D/Perrine–MrkosA periodic comet lost after 1909, rediscovered in 1955.19P/BorrellyPeriodic comet visited by Deep Space 1 in 2001.20D/WestphalA Halley-type comet that disintegrated in 1913 and is now lost.21P/Giacobini–ZinnerFirst comet visited by a spacecraft; parent of the Draconid meteor shower.22P/KopffJupiter-family comet discovered in 1906 with a dark, tarry nucleus.23P/Brorsen–MetcalfHalley-type comet with 70-year period, first detected in submillimeter wavelengths.24P/SchaumasseJupiter-family comet discovered by Alexandre Schaumasse, with a variable brightness history.
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