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Solar System: Comets
The following table lists the major periodic comets in our solar system. Tail debris from some comets are what cause certain annual meteor showers.
| Comets |
Period
(yrs) |
Perihelion
(AU) |
Eccentricity |
Inclination |
| Ashbrook-Jackson |
7.49 |
2.316 |
0.39 |
12.5 |
| Borrelly |
6.88 |
1.365 |
0.62 |
30.3 |
| Brooks 2 |
6.89 |
1.843 |
0.49 |
5.5 |
| Bus |
6.52 |
2.183 |
0.37 |
2.6 |
| Ciffréo |
7.23 |
1.70877 |
0.54317 |
13.089 |
| Encke |
3.28 |
0.331 |
0.85 |
11.9 |
| Forbes |
6.13 |
1.44684 |
0.56805 |
7.159 |
| Gehrels 3 |
8.11 |
3.427 |
0.15 |
1.1 |
| Giclas |
6.96 |
1.84679 |
0.49321 |
7.284 |
| Halley |
76 |
0.587 |
0.97 |
162.2 |
| Harrington |
6.78 |
1.572 |
0.56 |
8.7 |
| Hartley 3 |
6.84 |
2.462 |
0.32 |
11.7 |
| Holmes |
7.09 |
2.177 |
0.41 |
19.2 |
| Howell |
5.58 |
1.40914 |
0.55206 |
4.4 |
| Kohoutek |
6.67 |
1.785 |
0.5 |
5.9 |
| Kojima |
7.85 |
2.399 |
0.39 |
0.9 |
| Lovas 2 |
6.76 |
1.462 |
0.59 |
1.5 |
| Mry |
8.74 |
2.027 |
0.52 |
11.7 |
| Neujmin 3 |
10.63 |
2.001 |
0.59 |
4 |
| Reinmuth 2 |
6.64 |
1.893 |
0.46 |
7 |
| Russell 2 |
7.38 |
2.276 |
0.4 |
12 |
| Schmasse |
8.22 |
1.20216 |
0.70485 |
11.846 |
| Schuster |
7.26 |
1.53924 |
0.58952 |
20.134 |
| Schwassman-Wachmann 1 |
14.85 |
5.772 |
0.04 |
9.4 |
| Schwassman-Wachmann 2 |
6.39 |
2.07 |
0.4 |
3.8 |
| Shajn-Schaldach |
7.49 |
2.345 |
0.39 |
6.1 |
| Slghter-Burnham |
11.6 |
2.544 |
0.5 |
8.2 |
| Smirnova-Chernykh |
8.59 |
3.575 |
0.15 |
6.6 |
| Swift-Tuttle |
135.29 |
0.95822 |
0.96359 |
113.427 |
| Tempel 1 |
5.5 |
1.494 |
0.52 |
10.6 |
| Tempel 2 |
5.48 |
1.484 |
0.52 |
12 |
| Tuttle |
13.51 |
0.998 |
0.82 |
54.7 |
| Urata-Nijima |
6.64 |
1.457 |
0.59 |
24.2 |
| van Houten |
16.87 |
4.155 |
0.37 |
7.2 |
| Väisälä 1 |
10.78 |
1.78302 |
0.63471 |
11.596 |
| West-Kohoutek-Ikemura |
6.41 |
1.577 |
0.54 |
30.5 |
| Whipple |
8.53 |
3.094 |
0.26 |
9.9 |
| Wild 3 |
6.91 |
2.299 |
0.37 |
15.5 |
| Wiseman-Skiff |
6.53 |
1.509 |
0.57 |
18.2 |
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