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    The Great Comet of 1819, officially designated as C/1819 N1, also known as Comet Tralles, was an exceptionally bright and easily visible comet, approaching...
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    1819 Great Comet of 1823 Great Comet of 1831 Great Comet of 1843 Great Comet of 1844 Donati's Comet – 1858 Great Comet of 1861 Great Southern Comet of...
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  • time. Comets may also transit the Sun; for example, Halley's Comet transited on 19 May 1910. Another example was C/1819 N1, the Great Comet of 1819, but...
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    astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819. July 21 – Explorer William Parry, sailing in the Arctic in a quest...
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    (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field...
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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 every 72–80 years. It last appeared...
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  • periodic. July 1 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago....
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    Johann Georg Tralles (category Discoverers of comets)
    topological survey of the Canton of Bern. In 1819, he discovered the Great Comet of 1819, Comet Tralles, named after him. He was the inventor of the alcoholometer...
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  • July 1 (redirect from 1st of July)
    British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. 1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using...
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    1810s (redirect from 1810-1819)
    – The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues. July 1, 1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It...
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    (Messier) is a long-period comet that was visible to the naked eye at its last apparition in 1769. The comet is classified as a great comet due to its superlative...
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    François Arago (category Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy)
    observation of a comet when he discovered polarized light from the tail of the Great Comet of 1819. The general idea of the experimental determination of the...
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  • the Great Comet of 1819 20 September – Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation E. T. A. Hoffmann The Life and Opinions of the...
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    C/1807 R1, also known as the Great Comet of 1807, is a long-period comet. It was visible to naked-eye observers in the northern hemisphere from early...
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  • whaling voyage (1818–1819): Comet was reported to be at Portsmouth on 26 March 1818, bound for the South Seas. By another account, Comet, Phipps, master,...
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    times, great comets caused worldwide fear, considered bad omens foreboding disaster and turmoil, for example the 1066 passage of Halley's Comet depicted...
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    named Comet, named after the "Great Comet" of 1811. The 28 ton burthen craft had a deck 43.5 feet (13.3 m) long with a beam of 11.25 feet (3.43 m). It had...
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    Jean-Louis Pons (category Discoverers of comets)
    supported some famous comet recoveries of the 19th century, including Encke's Comet and Crommelin's Comet. However, most of the comets he discovered had near-parabolic...
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  • 276P/Vorobjov (category Periodic comets)
    276P/Vorobjov (previously P/2012 T7 (Vorobjov)) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 2012 by Tomáš Vorobjov on three 120-s images taken...
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    This is a list of parabolic and hyperbolic comets in the Solar System. Many of these comets may come from the Oort cloud, or perhaps even have interstellar...
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