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Eight outbursts of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann in 3 weeks: a new record

Updated on 2022 December 7 Comet 29P/SW1 has been passing through the constellation of Gemini in recent weeks passing through

It is while since we have had a naked-eye comet but C/2022 E3 (ZTF) might just cross that threshold from

The latest issue of the Comet Section’s newsletter, The Comet’s Tale, is now available for download from the BAA’s website

This faint periodic comet was discovered by Paul Wild on 1990 January 21.98. It was discovered using a 0.40-m Schmidt

What is Mission 29P ?

This comet has been around for a while but it has only recently moved north of the celestial equator. It

Europlanet, in conjunction with the BAA, Planetum Prague and the Czech cometary group SMPH is planning to hold a hybrid

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Welsh school children feature in a study of a mysterious hybrid comet/asteroid

The first comet to be discovered in 2021 was found by Gregory Leonard on January 3. He was using the