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Comet Lovejoy

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Features: Survived close pass to the Sun, Bright, Orbital Period: about 314 years, Last Appearance: 2011

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Comet Holmes

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Features: Underwent a massive outburst, Yellowish cloud, Orbital Period: about 6.9 years, Last Appearance: Visible outburst in 2007

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Comet Hyakutake

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Features: Blue-green coma, Long tail, Orbital Period: about 17,000 years, Last Appearance: 1996

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Comet Wild 2

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Features: Visited by the Stardust spacecraft, Relatively young, Orbital Period: about 6.4 years, Last Appearance: 2010

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Comet Hale-Bopp

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Features: Extremely bright, Large nucleus, Orbital Period: roughly 2,533 years, Last Appearance: 1997

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Halley's Comet

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Features: Observable by the naked eye, Periodic, Orbital Period: 75-76 years, Last Appearance: 1986

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Comet Arend-Roland

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Features: Two tails, Anti-tail, Orbital Period: about 316 years, Last Appearance: 1957

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Comet West

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Features: Bright tail, Multiple tails, Orbital Period: around 558,000 years, Last Appearance: 1976

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Comet Borrelly

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Features: Elongated nucleus, Orbital Period: about 6.9 years, Last Appearance: 2001

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Comet Encke

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Features: Shortest period of any known long-period comets, Orbital Period: about 3.3 years, Last Appearance: 2017

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Comet Bennett

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Features: Observable without telescope, Three tails, Orbital Period: about 1,700 years, Last Appearance: 1970

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Comet Swift-Tuttle

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Features: Parent body of the Perseid meteor shower, Large nucleus, Orbital Period: 133 years, Last Appearance: 1992

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Comet McNaught

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Features: Brightest comet of recent times, Visible in daylight, Orbital Period: about 92,600 years, Last Appearance: 2007

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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

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Features: Fragmented, Orbital Period: Initially around Jupiter, Last Appearance: Impact with Jupiter in 1994

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Comet Tempel 1

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Features: Visited by Deep Impact and Stardust missions, Orbital Period: about 5.5 years, Last Appearance: 2011

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