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Halley's Comet
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Great comet
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Halley's Comet (12 BC)
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Caesar's Comet (44 BC)
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Halley's Comet (87 BC)
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Halley's Comet (164 BC)
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Halley's Comet (240 BC)
Great Comet of 371 BC - Aristotle's Comet
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Halley's Comet (467 BC)
1-1000
Halley's Comet (year 66)
Halley's Comet (year 141)
Halley's Comet (year 374)
Halley's Comet (year 451)
Halley's Comet (year 607)
Halley's Comet (year 684)
Halley's Comet (year 837) Halley's closest approach to earth (0.03 au)
Halley's Comet (year 912)
1001-1500
Halley's Comet (year 1066)
Great Comet of 1106
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Halley's Comet (year 1145)
Halley's Comet (year 1222)
Great Comet of 1264
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Halley's Comet (year 1301)
Comet Tempel–Tuttle (year 1366) 2nd closest approach to earth (0.023 AU)
Halley's Comet (year 1378)
Halley's Comet (year 1456)
Great Comet of 1472
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C/1490 Y1 - 1490 Ch'ing-yang event
XVI Century
Halley's Comet (year 1531)
Great Comet of 1556
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Great Comet of 1577
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XVII Century
Halley's Comet (year 1607)
Great Comet of 1618
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C/1652 Y1
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Great Comet of 1680
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Halley's Comet (year 1682)
XVIII Century
C/1702 H1
Comet of 1729 - Comet Sarabat
Great Comet of 1744
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Halley's Comet (year 1759)
The Great Comet of 1760
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C/1769 P1
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Lexell's Comet - D/1770 L1 - 1st closest approach to earth (0.015 AU)
Biela's Comet (year 1772)
Comet Encke
XIX Century
Biela's Comet (year 1806)
Great Comet of 1807
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Great Comet of 1811
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Great Comet of 1819
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Great Comet of 1823
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Biela's Comet (year 1826)
Halley's Comet (year 1835)
Great Comet of 1843
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Biela's Comet (year 1846)
C/1847 T1
Biela's Comet (year 1852) Disintegrated
Comet Donati
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Great Comet of 1861
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Great Southern Comet of 1865
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X/1872 X1 (Pogson's Comet)
Coggia's Comet
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Great Comet of 1881
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Great Comet of 1882
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Eclipse Comet of 1882
Great Southern Comet of 1887
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C/1890 V1
113P/Spitaler
1901-1949
Great Comet of 1901
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Comet Morehouse
Halley's Comet (year 1910)
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Great January Comet of 1910 (Daylight Comet)
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C/1911 O1
C/1911 S3
Comet Skjellerup–Maristany
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Ryves Comet
1950-1980
C/1948 V1
Comet Mrkos
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Comet Arend–Roland
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Comet Seki-Lines
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Comet Humason
Comet Ikeya–Seki
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Comet Bennett
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Comet Kohoutek
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Comet West
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1981-2000
C/1980 E1 (Bowell)
Comet IRAS–Araki–Alcock
Halley's Comet (year 1986)
Comet Skorichenko–George
C/1989 X1 (Austin)
C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch)
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (collided with Jupiter)
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Comet McNaught–Russell
Comet Hyakutake
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Comet Hale–Bopp
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Comet Zhu–Balam
Comet Stonehouse
C/1999 F1 (Catalina)
C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones)
2001-Today
C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
Comet Pojmański
C/2002 VQ94 (LINEAR)
C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
Comet McNaught
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C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
C/2007 W1 (Boattini)
Comet Lulin
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
Comet Yi–SWAN
C/2009 R1 (McNaught)
Comet Lovejoy
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C/2010 X1 (Elenin)
C/2012 E2 (SWAN)
C/2011 J2 (LINEAR)
C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)
C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)
C/2015 G2 (MASTER)
460P/PanSTARRS - 3rd closest recorded comet to Earth
C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS)
C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
C/2017 O1 (ASASSN)
C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE)
C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)
C/2017 T1 (Heinze)
C/2018 V1 (Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto)
C/2010 U3 (Boattini)
C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
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C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS)
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS)
C/2021 T4 (Lemmon)
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
Today-Future
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein)
Halley's Comet (year 2061)
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Halley's Comet (year 2134)
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