Periodic Comets, Part 2
36 entries in the Periodic Comets, Part 2 compendium.
88P/HowellJupiter-family comet discovered by Ellen Howell in 1981.332P/Ikeya–MurakamiA fragmenting short-period comet discovered visually by two Japanese amateurs.126P/IRASJupiter-family comet discovered by IRAS in 1983.440P/KobayashiFirst amateur CCD comet discovery, 25-year orbit.158P/Kowal–LINEARA lost comet rediscovered after 24 years.143P/Kowal–MrkosA periodic comet lost and later recovered.104P/KowalJupiter-family comet discovered in 1979 with a history of outbursts.147P/Kushida–MuramatsuA quasi-Hilda comet captured by Jupiter as an irregular moon.144P/KushidaJupiter-family comet discovered by Yoshio Kushida in January 1994.308P/Lagerkvist–CarsentyDistant Jupiter-family comet with a 17-year orbit.449P/LeonardRediscovered lost comet from 1987, now a Jupiter-family periodic comet.255P/LevyJupiter-family comet with disputed recovery and α Cepheids association.160P/LINEARJupiter-family comet discovered by LINEAR in 2004.209P/LINEARA low-activity periodic comet possibly evolving into extinction.252P/LINEARJupiter-family comet that made the fifth closest Earth approach.450P/LONEOSDistant periodic comet transitioning from centaur to Jupiter-family.93P/LovasJupiter-family comet discovered in 1980 by Miklós Lovas.96P/MachholzSunskirting comet with unusual composition and sungrazer families.141P/MachholzA fragmented Jupiter-family comet with multiple observed components.115P/MauryJupiter-family comet discovered by Alain J. Maury in 1985.220P/McNaughtJupiter-family comet with two major outbursts in 2026.260P/McNaughtJupiter-family comet discovered by Robert H. McNaught in 2005.97P/Metcalf–BrewingtonLost comet rediscovered after 85 years via orbital matching.120P/MuellerJupiter-family comet discovered by Jean Mueller in 1987.163P/NEATJupiter-family comet discovered in 2004 with precovery images back to 1990.169P/NEATParent body of the alpha Capricornids meteor shower.240P/NEATJupiter-family comet with a fragment split from its nucleus.311P/PanSTARRSAn active asteroid with six comet-like tails.455P/PanSTARRSEncke-type comet and active asteroid in the main belt.460P/PanSTARRSA dark Jupiter-family comet that made the closest Earth flyby since 1770.483P/PanSTARRSA split main-belt asteroid pair showing recurrent cometary activity.119P/Parker–HartleyJupiter-family comet co-discovered in 1989 with a 7.44-year orbit.226P/Pigott–LINEAR–KowalskiJupiter-family comet discovered in 1783, lost, then recovered.273P/Pons–GambartA retrograde Halley-type comet with a 186-year orbit.373P/RinnerFirst comet discovered by French astronomer Claudine Rinner.156P/Russell–LINEARJupiter-family comet discovered in 1986 by Kenneth S. Russell.
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