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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 ...
1861 in science; 1862 in science; ... Comet Swift–Tuttle; T. C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) V. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
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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)
Comet Swift–Tuttle; T. 55P/Tempel–Tuttle; C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) 8P/Tuttle This page was last edited on 27 May 2014, at 04:25 (UTC). Text ...
A rare comet is still glowing over Ohio. Here's how to see it before it's gone, and won't return for 80,000 years.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William M. George joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -18.0 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.