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Loading contentA periodic comet (109P/Swift–Tuttle) that is the parent body of the Perseid meteor shower.
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How Comet Swift–Tuttle connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
A prominent summer meteor shower whose radiant lies in the constellation Perseus, produced by debris from comet Swift–Tuttle.
Periodic comets with orbits of decades to a couple of centuries, named for their prototype, Halley's Comet.
A hypothesised spherical cloud of trillions of icy bodies at the outermost edge of the Sun's gravitational influence — the reservoir from which long-period and Halley-type comets are nudged inward.
A periodic comet orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission.
Periodic comet — 19P/Borrelly.
A long-period comet that was widely visible to the naked eye in 1997.
A comet that passed very close to Earth in 1996.
A long-period comet discovered in 2020 that became a bright naked-eye object in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
A comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.
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General reference for the history of astronomy, biographies, and cultural context.