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Comet tail disconnection event predictions

Disconnection events The ion tail of a comet is driven away from the coma by the solar wind which flows

Richard Miles on behalf of the Comet Chasers team run by Helen Usher reports another major outburst of this unusual

A lot of items have been appearing in the media about this comet. As with most comets that come to

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type comet with a period of 71 years which returns to perihelion next April. On its

103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m

The Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60

There aren’t any bright comets around at the moment and the skies don’t really get dark at UK latitudes at

This recently discovered comet, announced on CBET 5228, may become a bright object in October next year but it is

<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage Multiple outbursts between November 21 and November 24 We have seen at least 5

Finder charts for 2023 January Finder charts for 2023 February Ephemeris The comet was a naked eye object near