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The comet passed about 0.335 AU (50.1 million km; 31.1 million mi) from the Earth on 5 May 1861 and last came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 3 June 1861. [3] C/1861 G1 is listed as a long-period "non-periodic comet" because it has not yet been observed at two perihelion passages.
The source of the meteor shower are particles of dust shed by the long-period Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. [1] The April Lyrids are the strongest annual shower of meteors from debris of a long-period comet, mainly because as far as other intermediate long-period comets go (200–10,000 years), this one has a relatively short orbital period of ...
The Lyrids are space dust from the comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1), which orbits the sun every 415 years. The comet was discovered in 1861, but the shower has been observed for more than 2,600 years.
Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher’s dust trail creates the Lyrids. Considered an average shower at a peak rate of 20 meteors per hour, the shower will be visible from April 16–25 but the best views are ...
Comet NEOWISE; C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) P. C/1963 R1 (Pereyra) S. C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) T. C/1861 J1 (Tebbutt) C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) U. C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones)
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The Great Comet of 1861, formally designated C/1861 J1 and 1861 II, is a long-period comet that was visible to the naked eye for approximately 3 months. [6] It was categorized as a great comet —one of the eight greatest comets of the 19th century.
This category contains near-Earth comets.In general, numbered objects in this category should be sorted using a sortkey based on their numerical prefix (0-padded-three-digits plus single letter, see order in List of numbered comets), for example: