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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 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.
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)
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:
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.
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 ...
Comet Donati–Toussaint, formally designated as C/1864 O1, is a non-periodic comet co-discovered by Italian astronomers, Giovanni Battista Donati and Carlo Toussaint in July 1864. Discovery and observations