12 Facts About Comet

Comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing.

The Giotto space probe found that the nucleus of Halley's Comet reflects about four percent of the light that falls on it, and Deep Space 1 discovered that Comet Borrelly's surface reflects less than 3.

At the shorter orbital period extreme, Encke's Comet has an orbit that does not reach the orbit of Jupiter, and is known as an Encke-type comet.

For example, Comet McNaught had a heliocentric osculating eccentricity of 1.

The year after the Great Comet of 1618, for example, Gotthard Arthusius published a pamphlet stating that it was a sign that the Day of Judgment was near.

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Comet listed ten pages of comet-related disasters, including "earthquakes, floods, changes in river courses, hail storms, hot and dry weather, poor harvests, epidemics, war and treason and high prices".

Biela's Comet was one significant example when it broke into two pieces during its passage through the perihelion in 1846.

Comet pointed out that only the tails are transparent and thus cloudlike, and argued that there is no reason to confine their orbits to the zodiac.

Comet's predictions were not very accurate, but they were conducted in the hopes of estimating the distance of a comet from the Earth.

Great Comet of 1577 is a well-known example of a great comet.

Halley's Comet alone has caused a slew of sensationalist publications of all sorts at each of its reappearances.

Great Comet of 1882 is a member of the Kreutz group.