Comets that complete an orbit of the Sun in about two hundred years or less, including the Jupiter-family comets and the Halley-type comets. A comet belongs here when its cited article calls it a periodic, short-period or Jupiter-family comet. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (Wikipedia)
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was the ninth periodic comet (a comet whose orbital period is 200 years or less) discovered by Shoemaker and Levy
Wikipedia: Halley's Comet
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Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing roughly every 74-79 years.
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Wikipedia)
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67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (abbreviated 67P or 67P/C-G and nicknamed "Chury") is a Jupiter-family comet.
Comet Encke (Wikipedia)
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Comet Encke , or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years.
Tempel 1 (Wikipedia)
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Tempel 1 (official designation: 9P/Tempel) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867.
Comet Swift-Tuttle (Wikipedia)
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Comet Swift-Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift-Tuttle) is a large periodic comet with a 1995 (osculating) orbital period of 133 years that is in a 1:11 orbital resonance with Jupiter.
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