COMETS

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HISTORY : The history of the comets it loses in the night of the times; surely they already observe since the times of the Assyrian-Babylonians or the Caldeis. Or perhaps many centuries before already in the prehistory they made their appearance in the dark skies of the primitive populations.

For a lot of time they must have represent a true riddle for all the observatories: they appeared in the most unexpected moments, with sudden variations of brightness and dimensions, with head of hair, one or manifold tails, sometimes even colored, and then they disappeared in the depth of the sky. And as if it was not enough they stirred among the fixed stars, thing that only the planets made, breaking so the logics of celestial harmonies and it was not known if they were atmospheric phenomena or astronomic objects.

The Caldeis considered her both "wandering stars" that "fires turned on by eddies of turbulent and whirling air [Naturales quaestiones]" and they already considered its of good or bad auspices. The Egyptians have not handed down anything, but they were the first ones to call them long-haired stars and they perhaps supposed their periodic return, but vague references are had.

The Greek proposed very fanciful hypothesis: Anassagora and Democrito said that they were formed when two planets were in conjunction, Pitagora that was real and just planets with the tail. According to Aristotle existed two worlds, that sublunare or earthling, countersigned by the presence of the four fundamental elements - earth, water, air and fire -, that move of rectilinear motion, ended and defective and that translunare, or celestial, constituted of ether, the fifth unchangeable and incorruptible essence, and its typical motion it is that circular, endless and perfect.

Aristotle it layings in that earthling, considering her meteorological events. This conviction, shared by Greek and Romans it persisted for almost two thousand years.  Their consideration grew to excess in how much it was thought they directly influenced the health of the men, on the fertility of the fields and on the earthquakes, and therefore they were in partnership to catastrophic events, what the epidemics and famines. They scattered the terror on whole Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and it were only thanks to the studies on the comet of Halley that this wrong tendency was reversed. But not definitely, some myths and beliefs are hard to kill even today.

Seneca launched in an affirmation that lost him however in the memory for centuries saying "an epoch will Come in which a careful study and prolonged for centuries it will illuminate on these phenomena of the nature", but ascertaining that it would hardly be been able in that times to reach something of profit for the science. After him the thoughts on the comets stopped him, but more for idleness and crisis of thought that for other.

Even Plinio devoted him to the study of these stars and even Tolomeo competed in wrong way to spread notions more astrological than astronomic.

The middle age was pervaded by ideas of inauspicious signs, carriers of calamities, a mixture among astrology and superstition, imagination and fear. It’s curious to read of big pestilences, a child been born with two teeth, snakes that flew, horses that spoke, visions anthropomorphous animals, earthquakes, statues that flew, fires, famines, pestilences, disasters, death of kings and so much so much other. Passed this period the science it slowly put him in motion: the florentine Paolo Toscanelli dal Pozzo (1397 -1482), it accomplished surveys of the position of some comets on the celestial map and it worded sketches on the head of the comets, limiting himself to schematically trace only the tail.

It followed the astronomer and German mathematician Johann Müller, said Regiomontano (1436 -1476) that he proposed to apply the method of the parallax to determine the distance of the comets from the Earth: unfortunately it was not able to show in unequivocal way that the comet of 1472 was very distant from not to belong to the terrestrial atmosphere. In the XVI century the superstitions of the middle age were still alive, and for more they were fed by mystical-religious beliefs: big idiocies said Martin Lutero and Paracelso , but they were not the only ones.

But in 1500 three important discoveries were had destined to contribute to the overthrow of the said geocentric system said then "Copernican revolution."

The first discovery was independently accomplished by a doctor from Verona Girolamo Fracastoro (1483 -1553) and from the German mathematician Petrus Apianus (1495 -1552): they noticed that the tail of the comets was always turned in opposite direction to the Sun, the which  thing contradicted the Aristotelian model. The second discovery, caught instead all by surprise: it was made by Tycho Brahe (1546 -1601), which the evening of November 11 th 1572 noticed a bright star in the constellation of Cassiopea; today we would say that it was a nova. Excluded that it dealt with a planet because Cassiopea doesn't belong to the zodiacal band , it was necessary to admit that this was in clean contrast with the theory of Aristotle.

The third decisive discovery was still accomplished from Tycho Brahe observing the comet of November 1578: measuring its parallaxis he understood that the comet had to be at least six times more distant than the Moon. He had finally been tried that the comets had to be considered celestial bodies to all the effects, and therefore to be studied as such. Is thanks to this discovery that Tycho will elaborate his system with the Earth always to the center of the universe, but with all the other planets and the comets that rotated around the sun.

The XVI sec. it was also the year of the De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestis of Nicolò Copernico, the greatest revolution of the history of the man To level of astronomy, of science, of society and of religion. In the new system, to the center of the universe there was not the Earth but the Sun, around which rotate the planets and the comets.

 

FORMATION : In the 1950 J. H. Oort introduced a study on the origin of the comets and the picture to distance of over half century it has been unchanged.

Starting from the observation of the casualness of the orbital characteristics,Oort concluded that the zone of origin had to be a spherical cloud; analyzing then the distances of the afeliis of the comets to him notes,he determined the ray of the hull of the greatest density of this cloud, quantifying /it in 40.000 A.U. Such hypothesis is also confirmed by the most recent observations: the orbits of the new comets point out for all an origin from this Cloud,the whose ray is esteemed today in over 50.000 A.U.  Currently they distinguish him in the Cloud of Oort two different regions respectively called External Cloud and Inside Cloud. The External Cloud is more or less spherical and extends him to depart approximately from 20.000 U.A.: its population is esteemed in 2x10^12 objects, around the 40% of the native population. The Cloud inside esteems contains 2x10^12-10^13 comets; its location is between 3.000 and 20.000 A.U. and, unlike of that external it, would not have a spherical form, but more squeezing, to form of bull. The initial hypothesis of Oort foresaw that the comets could have formed in the asteroidal band and subsequently removed by the Solar System by the gravitational action of Jupiter.  This would have asked for the formation of an enormous mass of comets in how much, statistically, those definitely expelled by the Solar System it would have owed to be many more of those remained in the Cloud of Oort.

It also plays to disfavor of this hypothesis an evaluation of the temperature that had to prevail next to Jupiter in how much it would bring to exclude the formation of molecules more complex of that of the water. According to Cameron (1976) the comets would directly be formed in the Cloud of Oort; to great distances from the Sun, in fact, the gas that is collapsing of the primordial solar nebula would not have had the enough density to allow an aggregation in rather great bodies, here therefore that such aggregation would be arrested giving origin to the nucleuses cometari. The same Cameron, however, suggests a possible alternative mechanism: it foresees that the initial nebula would be divided, that is constituted more great (what then it will give origin to the Sun and the protoplanetary disk) central fragment and from fragments of smaller (what they would have in such way originated of the "cometary nebulous” ) dimensions orbiting around it. They would be these nebulas (to form of disk) the places of formation of the comets, and it is from these nebulas orbitting around the Sun that they would be extracted, through the mechanisms perturbed describes you more before, the comets a long time period.

Another hypothesis (Fernandez and Ip 1983) tie the formation of the Cloud of Oort to the slowest aggregation of Uranus and Neptune in comparison to the other planets.   In the zone of formation of these planets there was an elevated availability of planetesimi and the mechanism of aggregation it was characterized by a low efficiency because there wasn’t. These two factors would have done yes that the planetesimis could hear some gravitational effects of Uranus and Neptune (even if of inferior dimensions to the actual ones) to the point to be launched on orbits already comparable to those of the constituent bodies the Cloud of Oort.

You can affirm however that the External Cloud of Oort marks the border of the Solar System and is reasonable to think that it can stretch up to cover around 1/3 of the distance from Proxima Centauri, that is around 80.000 U.A.

Is inevitable that to these enormous distances from the Sun the comets can easily be perturbed in their motion.  The two factors fundamentally responsible of the perturbation of the motion they are:

 

1. The passage near to the Sun of another star (event that is verified with frequencies typical of some million of years);

 

2. Gravitational forces of the Milky Way (underlined by the tendency of the new comets to avoid the galactic plan and its poles) .

 

In the same period in which Oort advanced his theory, there was who hypothesized the existence of a great ring of primordial deposits over the orbit of Neptune, a sort of "ring saturniano" that it encircles the Solar System, constituted by deposits that they had not been able to condense in big bodies: the theory proposed in 1951 by G. Kuiper and still before, in 1949, from K.E. Edgeworth, shows today him correct also thanks to the contribution of the observations of the H.S.T. The Band of Kuiper is currently located between the orbit of Neptune and 100 A.U., with the presence therefore of a gap between the same Band and the Inside Cloud of Oort. The characteristic population of the Kuiper Belt would be constituted both from very small (ray of few km) objects and from bodies of great (50-200 km) dimensions.

 

For that it concerns the comets to short period they are had doubts that could have had origin from that gigantic reservoir of comets that is the Cloud of Oort. The analysis of their orbital (above all the low value of the inclination) parameters lifts, in fact, strong perplexities on the possibility that an orbit initially characterized by casual (in how much coming from a spherical cloud) inclination can be modified and flattened in so efficient way by the planetary perturbations.

In a recent study, A. Stern and H. Campins (1996) they identify two possible regions that constitute the reservoir of the comets to short period:

 

1. a first region is the zone over the orbit of Neptune, in which the perturbations of the giant planets are able to modify the eccentricities of the orbits on scale of time comparable times to the age of the Solar System. Its this stability of the mechanism on long scale, in fact, the principal criterion of identification of the place of origin for the comets to short period.

2. the second region is identifiable with to slow evaporate dynamic of the Troianis but the mechanism of extraction of objects from this second zone, however, according to the dynamic simulations which it was mentioned in precedence (Marzari et to., 1995), it seems very less efficient.

 

The recent discoveries of objects type-Halley in the Kuiper Belt (Cochran et to, 1995) and the dynamic evaluations on the population situated in that place (Stern 1995) they don't do anything else other than to depose for the first hypothesis.

 

DEFINITION :  A comet is celestial object relatively small, similar to an asteroid but mainly composed of ice. Often described as "dirty balls of snow", the comets are composed for the greatest part of volatil substances as carbon's dioxide, methane and water frozen, with mixed united of dust and some mineral.

When a comet draws near to the inner solar system, the heat of the Sun makes to sublime its more external layers of ice. The tides of dust and gas produced form a great, but attenuate atmosphere around the comet, called head of hair, and the strength practiced on the head of hair by the pressure of radiation of the Sun, and above all from the solar wind, they cause an enormous tail that points in opposite direction to the sun. Dusts and gas often form two separate tails, that slightly aim in lightly different directions: the dust, heavier, it remains back in comparison to the comet, and it often forms a bent tail. The gas, more sensitive to the solar wind, form a right tail. The central body of the comet, from which is originated the material that forms the head of hair and the tail, is called nucleus.

It was thought that the comets are of the residues remained by the condensation of the nebula from which the Solar System was formed: the peripheral zones of such nebula would have been enough cold to be allowed the water to be in solid (instead that as gas) form.

 

CLASSIFICATION :  The comets are classified with  the letter P before their name and a number that points out the order with which the periodicity has been determined, example 1P/Halley.

In the case in which the period of the comet is very great or the comet is not periodic it puts on the letter C rather than the P; if the comet is lost the D it is used.

The comets just discoveries bring temporarily the appointed P or C, the year of discovery, a letter and a number. The letter points out the two weeks of the month of the discovery (A from the 1 to January 15, B from 16 to 31,…). Example the C/1996 B2 is the second open comet in the second half of January 1996, the famous Hyakutake. Up to 1994 the classification was different: during the provisional period the name of the discoverer was used. Or more than one, then the year and a lower letter that it pointed out the sequence of the discovery in the year. Then as definitive name was used the year and a Roman number that it pointed out the sequence of the passages to the perielio in the year.

The comets are also distinguished according to their orbital period. The comets of long period (thousand of years) probably derive from the cloud of Oort, while comets of shorter (but always of the order of the about ten or hundreds of years) period have origin from the band of Kuiper. The comets of really short (few years) period become such only in following the capture of part of a giant planet. The comets said sun-grazing (what they graze the sun), from the so elliptic orbit and crushed that literally graze the solar surface. These comets have brief life, because the intense heat dissolves her in little time.

 

 

DIMENSION :  generally the nucleus is enough small of the order of some km. Decidedly  more great, at least an order of greatness, the head of hair of gas that from it he develops. The tail reaches absolutely to millions of km, sometimes also hundreds of million.

 

 

SPATIAL MISSIONS : The first spatial probes to visit a comet have been the Giotto of the ESA and the probes Vega 1 and Vega 2 of the Soviet union that they photographed the Comet of Halley in the 1986.

The American probe Deep Space 1 passed close to the Comet Borrelly in 2001 and it confirmed that the characteristics of the Comet of Halley were similar to those of other comets.

The mission Stardust has been launched in January 1999, and it has met the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. It has picked up some material that has reentered on the Earth in the 2006. The mission Deep Impact has been launched in February 2005, and it has struck with a bullet the comet Tempel 1 July 4 th 2005 (to the 5:52 UTC).

 

 

THE MOST BRIGHTEST COMETS SINCE 1935 :

 

(-10)       C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki)
 (-5.5)     C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
  -3.0      C/1975 V1 (West)
 (-3)       C/1947 X1 (Southern comet)
  -0.8      C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)
 
 (-0.5)     C/1956 R1 (Arend-Roland)
 (-0.5)     C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
   0.0      C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
   0.0      C/1969 Y1 (Bennett)
  (0)       C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek)
 
  (0)       C/1948 V1 (Eclipse comet)
  (0)       C/1962 C1 (Seki-Lines)
   0.5      C/1998 J1 (SOHO)
   1.0      C/1957 P1 (Mrkos)
  (1)       C/1970 K1 (White-Ortiz-Bolelli)
 
   1.7      C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock)
  (2)       C/1941 B2 (de Kock-Paraskevopoulos)
  (2.2)     C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
   2.4     1P/1982 U1 (Halley)
   2.5      C/2000 WM_1 (LINEAR)
 
   2.7      C/1964 N1 (Ikeya)
   2.8      C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
   2.8      C/1989 W1 (Aarseth-Brewington)
   2.8      C/1963 A1 (Ikeya)
   2.9   153P/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang)
 
   3.0      C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)
   3.3      C/1936 K1 (Peltier)
  (3.3)     C/2004 F4 (Bradfield)
   3.5      C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)
   3.5      C/1942 X1 (Whipple-Fedtke-Tevzadze)
 
   3.5      C/1940 R2 (Cunningham)
   3.5      C/1939 H1 (Jurlof-Achmarof-Hassel)
   3.5      C/1959 Y1 (Burnham)
   3.5      C/1969 T1 (Tago-Sato-Kosaka)
   3.5      C/1980 Y1 (Bradfield)
 
  (3.5)     C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard)
  (3.5)     C/1955 L1 (Mrkos)
   3.6      C/1990 K1 (Levy)
   3.7      C/1975 N1 (Kobayashi-Berger-Milon)
   3.9      C/1974 C1 (Bradfield)
   3.9      C/1937 N1 (Finsler)

 

 

 

THE MOST CLOSE COMETS :

 

Distance  Date (TT)       Permanent name 
  (UA)
 
 0.0151   1770 July  1.7      D/1770 L1 (Lexell)
 0.0229   1366 Oct. 26.4    55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle)
 0.0312   1983 May  11.5      C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock)
 0.0334    837 Apr. 10.5     1P/837 F1 (Halley)
 0.0366   1805 Dec.  9.9     3D/1805 V1 (Biela)
 0.0390   1743 Feb.  8.9      C/1743 C1
 0.0394   1927 June 26.8     7P/Pons-Winnecke
 0.0437   1702 Apr. 20.2      C/1702 H1
 0.0617   1930 May  31.7    73P/1930 J1 (Schwassmann-Wachmann)
 0.0628   1983 June 12.8      C/1983 J1 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa)
 0.0682   1760 Jan.  8.2      C/1760 A1 (Great comet)
 0.0787   2006 May  12.4    73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
 0.0839   1853 Apr. 29.1      C/1853 G1 (Schweizer)
 0.0879   1797 Aug. 16.5      C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel)
 0.0884    374 Apr.  1.9     1P/374 E1 (Halley)
 0.0898    607 Apr. 19.2     1P/607 H1 (Halley)
 0.0934   1763 Sept.23.7      C/1763 S1 (Messier)
 0.0964   1864 Aug.  8.4      C/1864 N1 (Tempel)
 0.0982   1862 July  4.6      C/1862 N1 (Schmidt)
 0.1018   1996 Mar. 25.3      C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
 0.1019   1961 Nov. 15.2      C/1961 T1 (Seki)

 

 

PERIODIC COMETS :

 

   1P    Halley                           96P    Machholz
   2P    Encke                            97P    Metcalf-Brewington
   3D    Biela                            98P    Takamizawa
   4P    Faye                             99P    Kowal
   5D    Brorsen                         100P    Hartley
   6P    d'Arrest                        101P    Chernykh
   7P    Pons-Winnecke                   102P    Shoemaker
   8P    Tuttle                          103P    Hartley
   9P    Tempel                          104P    Kowal
  10P    Tempel                          105P    Singer Brewster
  11P    Tempel-Swift-LINEAR             106P    Schuster
  12P    Pons-Brooks                     107P    Wilson-Harrington
  13P    Olbers                          108P    Ciffreo
  14P    Wolf                            109P    Swift-Tuttle
  15P    Finlay                          110P    Hartley
  16P    Brooks                          111P    Helin-Roman-Crockett
  17P    Holmes                          112P    Urata-Niijima
  18D    Perrine-Mrkos                   113P    Spitaler
  19P    Borrelly                        114P    Wiseman-Skiff
  20D    Westphal                        115P    Maury
  21P    Giacobini-Zinner                116P    Wild
  22P    Kopff                           117P    Helin-Roman-Alu
  23P    Brorsen-Metcalf                 118P    Shoemaker-Levy
  24P    Schaumasse                      119P    Parker-Hartley
  25D    Neujmin                         120P    Mueller
  26P    Grigg-Skjellerup                121P    Shoemaker-Holt
  27P    Crommelin                       122P    de Vico
  28P    Neujmin                         123P    West-Hartley
  29P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            124P    Mrkos
  30P    Reinmuth                        125P    Spacewatch
  31P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            126P    IRAS
  32P    Comas Sola                      127P    Holt-Olmstead
  33P    Daniel                          128P    Shoemaker-Holt
  34D    Gale                            129P    Shoemaker-Levy
  35P    Herschel-Rigollet               130P    McNaught-Hughes
  36P    Whipple                         131P    Mueller
  37P    Forbes                          132P    Helin-Roman-Alu
  38P    Stephan-Oterma                  133P    Elst-Pizarro
  39P    Oterma                          134P    Kowal-Vavrova
  40P    Vaisala                         135P    Shoemaker-Levy
  41P    Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak         136P    Mueller
  42P    Neujmin                         137P    Shoemaker-Levy
  43P    Wolf-Harrington                 138P    Shoemaker-Levy
  44P    Reinmuth                        139P    Vaisala-Oterma
  45P    Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova         140P    Bowell-Skiff
  46P    Wirtanen                        141P    Machholz
  47P    Ashbrook-Jackson                142P    Ge-Wang
  48P    Johnson                         143P    Kowal-Mrkos
  49P    Arend-Rigaux                    144P    Kushida
  50P    Arend                           145P    Shoemaker-Levy
  51P    Harrington                      146P    Shoemaker-LINEAR
  52P    Harrington-Abell                147P    Kushida-Muramatsu
  53P    Van Biesbroeck                  148P    Anderson-LINEAR
  54P    de Vico-Swift-NEAT              149P    Mueller
  55P    Tempel-Tuttle                   150P    LONEOS
  56P    Slaughter-Burnham               151P    Helin
  57P    du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte        152P    Helin-Lawrence
  58P    Jackson-Neujmin                 153P    Ikeya-Zhang
  59P    Kearns-Kwee                     154P    Brewington
  60P    Tsuchinshan                     155P    Shoemaker
  61P    Shajn-Schaldach                 156P    Russell-LINEAR
  62P    Tsuchinshan                     157P    Tritton
  63P    Wild                            158P    Kowal-LINEAR
  64P    Swift-Gehrels                   159P    LONEOS
  65P    Gunn                            160P    LINEAR
  66P    du Toit                         161P    Hartley-IRAS
  67P    Churyumov-Gerasimenko           162P    Siding Spring
  68P    Klemola                         163P    NEAT
  69P    Taylor                          164P    Christensen
  70P    Kojima                          165P    LINEAR
  71P    Clark                           166P    NEAT
  72P    Denning-Fujikawa                167P    CINEOS
  73P    Schwassmann-Wachmann            168P    Hergenrother
  74P    Smirnova-Chernykh               169P    NEAT
  75D    Kohoutek                        170P    Christensen
  76P    West-Kohoutek-Ikemura           171P    Spahr
  77P    Longmore                        172P    Yeung
  78P    Gehrels                         173P    Mueller
  79P    du Toit-Hartley                 174P    Echeclus
  80P    Peters-Hartley                  175P    Hergenrother
  81P    Wild                            176P    LINEAR
  82P    Gehrels                         177P    Barnard
  83P    Russell                         178P    Hug-Bell
  84P    Giclas                          179P    Jedicke
  85P    Boethin                         180P    NEAT
  86P    Wild                            181P    Shoemaker-Levy
  87P    Bus                             182P    LONEOS
  88P    Howell                          183P    Korlevic-Juric
  89P    Russell                         184P    Lovas
  90P    Gehrels                         185P    Petriew
  91P    Russell                         186P    Garradd
  92P    Sanguin                         187P    LINEAR
  93P    Lovas                           188P    LINEAR-Mueller
  94P    Russell                         189P    NEAT
  95P    Chiron                          190P    Mueller

 

 

ORBITAL PARAMETERS :

 

a = major semiaxis

e = eccentricity

i = inclination

w = longitude of perielio

na = ascendine node

H,K parameter for magnitude m= H+5*log(delta)+K*log(R)

 

Perielio            a        e         w              na     i      H     K

 

2007 04 19.3142 0.339146  0.847067  186.5212 334.5630   11.7569    11.5 6.0  2P/Encke

2006 11 15.4192 1.666981  0.566695  205.0001 199.2996    9.0322     8.0 6.0  4P/Faye

2008 01 27.0173 1.027126  0.819808  207.5072 270.3417   54.9829     8.0 8.0  8P/Tuttle

2005 07 5.4239  1.507410  0.517366 178.9086   68.9332   10.5299 5.5 10.0  9P/Tempel

2010 07 4.8114  1.424962  0.535934 195.5566  117.8365   12.0235 5.0 10.0  10P/Tempel

2008 06 22.5397 0.969583  0.721506  347.4727 13.8494    6.8162    12.0 4.0  15P/Finlay

2008 04 12.5713 1.466694  0.562791  219.4535 159.3788    4.2580     7.5 10.0 16P/Brooks

2007 05 4.5276  2.053218  0.432564 24.2712  326.8646   19.1126 10.0  6.0  17P/Holmes

2008 07 22.4760 1.355008  0.624407  353.3680 75.4466   30.3249     4.5 10.0 19P/Borrelly

2008 03 23.6868 1.116754  0.633030    1.7075 211.7078   22.3563    12.0 16.0 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup

2002 12 26.5633 1.557793  0.774765  347.6359 346.3515   14.3685     8.5 6.0  28P/Neujmin

2004 06 25.8600 5.719278  0.044593   47.8848 312.6423    9.3928     4.0 4.0  29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

2010 04 19.9142 1.883967  0.500563   13.2635 119.7567    8.1229     9.5 6.0  30P/Reinmuth

2010 10 1.6753  3.420992  0.192177 18.3066  114.1919    4.5476 5.0  8.0  31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann

2005 04 2.7073  1.979339  0.560490 52.9272   58.3078   10.1236 6.5  8.0  32P/Comas Sola

2008 02 18.2485 2.106416  0.428461   58.0596 286.6002    5.9047     8.3 6.0  44P/Reinmuth

2008 02 2.4162  1.057480  0.658120 356.3485   82.1754   11.7392 9.0  6.0  46P/Wirtanen

2009 01 31.2265 2.797812  0.321391  357.3824 357.2022   13.0369     1.0 11.2 47P/Ashbrook-Jackson

2005 02 23.1872 1.373794  0.611047  332.8307 119.4620   18.8504    11.3 4.4  49P/Arend-Rigaux

2007 11 1.1825  1.924355  0.529244 49.0418  355.3368   19.1549 9.5  6.0  50P/Arend

2009 03 7.7510  2.355752  0.474680 127.5420  313.0386    9.3412 7.0  6.0  59P/Kearns-Kwee

2008 09 5.9072  2.108644  0.426777 221.5377  163.1320    6.0071 6.0 10.0  61P/Shajn-Schaldach

2010 03 1.5437  2.441800  0.319700 196.4534   68.3861   10.3863 5.0  6.0  65P/Gunn

2009 02 28.1645 1.251240  0.640104   12.2066 50.4452    7.0590    11.0 4.0  67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

2009 01 21.1332  1.758133  0.640362 154.0211  175.3611   11.1454 10.0  4.0  68P/Klemola

2007 10  5.9328  2.011912 0.453212    2.1073  119.2590 6.5956    11.0  6.0 70P/Kojima

2006 06  6.8532  1.562743 0.499634  208.7887   59.6588 9.4872     9.8  6.0 71P/Clark

2009 07 31.0990 3.556525  0.147958   87.3693 77.1145    6.6488     5.0 6.0  74P/Smirnova-Chernykh

2006 11 19.7591 1.603447  0.538307    0.1138 84.1062   30.4592     8.0 12.0 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura

2009 07 7.6847  2.310133  0.358504 196.6506   14.9382   24.3954 7.0  8.0  77P/Longmore

2010 02 22.6186 1.595711  0.537719   41.8553 136.1147    3.2377     7.0 6.0  81P/Wild

2010 01 14.6983 3.631708  0.121540  226.6465 239.5168    1.1267     5.0 8.0  82P/Gehrels

2006 08 7.4278  1.851093  0.492481 276.2930  112.4734    7.2816 9.5  8.0  84P/Giclas

2008 05 20.0345 2.301179  0.365687  179.1612 72.5823   15.4487    11.0 6.0  86P/Wild

2007 07 7.2536  2.173327  0.376614 24.2515  182.1829    2.5767 7.2 10.0  87P/Bus

2005 06 27.0726 2.604494  0.330396  354.8283 247.8937   14.0928     7.5 6.0  91P/Russell

2007 12 17.3477 1.704736  0.611751   74.6668 339.9248   12.2182     9.5 6.0  93P/Lovas

2007 04 4.6489  0.124583  0.958725 14.6224   94.5479   59.9841 13.0  4.8  96P/Machholz

2007 01 17.7384 4.719081  0.228405  173.0431 28.3918    4.3416     4.5 6.0  99P/Kowal

2006 06 6.8019  1.973260  0.472355 18.5290  339.9306   26.2545 6.5  8.0  102P/Shoemaker

2007 04 2.2114  1.556031  0.586817 355.8222   50.6093   20.1109    14.0 4.8  106P/Schuster

2007 07 18.0399 1.719112  0.541590  357.9733 53.7384   13.0779     8.0 12.0 108P/Ciffreo

2008 02 3.5044  2.488448  0.312539 167.8047  287.7463   11.6793 1.0 12.0  110P/Hartley

2005 01 2.9113  3.490908  0.138771 11.9900   91.8949    4.2339 5.0  8.0  111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett

2008 03 23.4279 2.128497  0.422947   49.8528 14.4750    5.7757    13.5 4.0  113P/Spitaler

2009 07 18.8777 2.174073  0.375031  173.5960 21.0534    3.6131     2.5 10.0 116P/Wild

2005 12 20.6324 3.038437  0.255815  222.8254 58.9417    8.7075     2.5 8.0  117P/Helin-Roman-Alu

2010 01 2.6968  1.991204  0.426049 301.9066  151.8304    8.4955 12.0  4.0  118P/Shoemaker-Levy

2005 05 23.4882 3.043176  0.290190  181.2661 244.0840    5.1885     3.5 8.0  119P/Parker-Hartley

2008 04 27.2015 1.468596  0.542406  181.3616 1.3552   31.3397    13.5 2.8  124P/Mrkos

2007 08 10.7346 1.523564  0.512696   87.3353 153.1954    9.9859    13.0 6.0  125P/Spacewatch

2007 06 13.5967 3.068884  0.319966  210.4394 214.4174    4.3551     8.5 4.0  128P/Shoemaker-Holt

2005 06 15.5576 2.813745  0.253255  184.6146 302.4338    5.0868    11.0 4.0  129P/Shoemaker-Levy

2007 05 30.6763 2.710904  0.291472   22.2572 213.2738    6.0513     7.0 8.0  135P/Shoemaker-Levy

2007 10 22.1963 2.960636  0.292963  224.8589 137.5609    9.4274    11.0 4.0  136P/Mueller

2009 05 13.2482 1.904662  0.576654  140.9206 233.3235    4.8778    11.0 4.0  137P/Shoemaker-Levy

2008 04 19.5064 3.402761  0.246335  165.5409 242.4526    2.3295     9.5 4.0  139P/Vaisala-Oterma

2009 06 12.0180 2.538022  0.410352  320.7158 245.3879    4.6903    13.5 2.0  143P/Kowal-Mrkos

2008 05 22.7575 1.702652  0.537837    6.6935 89.8065    3.6783    16.0 2.0  148P/Anderson-LINEAR

2008 11 26.0107 1.767286  0.545986  245.6901 272.4309   18.5007    13.5 4.0  150P/LONEOS

2007 06 17.3642 1.593097  0.557680  357.6778 39.0485   20.7474    15.5 2.0  156P/Russell-LINEAR

2010 02 22.6928 1.395922  0.595293  147.6641 300.2290    7.1986    10.0 4.0  157P/Tritton

2012 09 26.1735 4.586211  0.028523  232.3977 137.3054    7.9083     9.0 4.0  158P/Kowal-LINEAR

2004 03 1.4981  3.648702  0.379544 4.8375   55.1398   23.4259 10.0  4.0  159P/LONEOS

2002 05 12.5378 8.550917  0.381206  321.4805   64.4834 15.3800     5.5  4.0 166P/NEAT

2001 04 30.4438 11.794159  0.273751 344.2120  295.7776   19.0910 9.5  2.0  167P/CINEOS

2008 10 12.7054 2.240714  0.362016  178.9489 40.0957   11.5172    13.0 4.0  172P/Yeung

2008 05 18.7340 4.214384  0.261314   29.8627 100.5699   16.4959     7.5 4.0  173P/Mueller

2015 04 19.2118 5.849641  0.456914  162.3793 173.3347    4.3376     9.5 2.0  174P/Echeclus

2006 11 6.8267  2.087075  0.408608 51.3270  126.9587    6.1121 14.0  4.0  175P/Hergenrother

2005 10 17.9274 2.579132  0.192655   36.0424 346.5395    0.2379    15.0 2.0  176P/LINEAR

2007 12 2.9772  4.086886  0.307837 295.4598  115.8523   19.8745 2.5  8.0  179P/Jedicke

2008 05 26.6619 2.468733  0.357830   94.9006 84.7549   16.9135    11.0 4.0  180P/NEAT

2006 11 25.0124 1.127260  0.706705  333.5545 37.8633   16.9266    11.5 4.0  181P/Shoemaker-Levy

2008 05 9.0927  3.893972  0.136113 161.6701    5.8486   18.7276 12.5  2.0  183P/Korlevic-Juric

2006 12 12.4688 1.395178  0.604233   77.4032 278.3001    1.5533    13.5 4.0  184P/Lovas

2007 02 24.5798 0.937465  0.698129  181.9174 214.0974   13.9751    15.0 4.0  185P/Petriew

2008 03 19.8951 4.263554  0.117864  278.6549 327.8722   28.8437     7.5 4.0  186P/Garradd

2008 10  5.6592  3.693696 0.170142  131.8539  112.0033 13.7323     9.0  4.0 187P/LINEAR

2007 12 16.1395 2.552137  0.415858   26.4349 359.1501   10.5463    11.5 4.0  188P/LINEAR-Mueller

2007 07 25.9095 1.173416  0.597661   15.2761 282.2005   20.4012    19.0 4.0  189P/NEAT

2007 07 8.2051  2.031918  0.520767 49.7346  336.1176    2.1899 13.0  4.0  190P/Mueller

2007 12 12.8883 1.463889  0.773344  312.7291 51.6568   24.5582    11.5 4.0  P/1990 V1 (Shoemaker-Levy)

2009 04 11.7195 2.935875  0.507063  191.9468   92.9461 24.7685    10.0  4.0 P/1994 J3 (Shoemaker)

1997 03 30.6505 0.923387  0.994969  130.7369 282.9154   89.2291    -2.0 4.0  C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

2008 08 27.0931 3.272531  0.333482  133.7182 234.8211   12.1218     9.0 4.0  P/1997 V1 (Larsen)

2007 05 12.1954 1.879923  0.552152   30.3393 341.8073   17.7109    15.0 2.0  P/1998 QP54 (LONEOS-Tucker)

2012 04 27.4481 3.858844  0.308928  251.8026 181.6810   31.4851     8.0 4.0  P/1998 U4 (Spahr)

2008 05 24.7693 3.422534  0.241915  244.3856 159.1891    5.0267    13.0 2.0  P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR)

2010 02  8.8831  3.183522 0.314272  154.5525  290.5636 2.9762    14.5  2.0 P/1999 WJ7 (Korlevic)

2008 11 13.0255  3.303687  0.210503 161.6993  285.4512    5.0263 13.5  2.0  P/1999 XN120 (Catalina)

2008 02 26.0328 1.708733  0.574217  130.6385 352.0686   11.1178    16.0 4.0  P/2000 B3 (LINEAR)

2008 02 7.3216  2.137900  0.433785 11.7166   24.3424   19.3794 13.5  4.0  P/2000 U6 (Tichy)

2011 12 27.3993 4.007687  0.198312   87.3774 354.6253    2.2535 9.0  4.0  P/2000 Y3 (Scotti)

2003 07 8.9987  2.782929  0.997516 323.9386   42.9234  163.2179 4.5  4.0  C/2001 HT50 (LINEAR-NEAT)

2002 10 13.4656 5.190281  1.001698   47.1981 237.4074   72.6025     4.0 4.0  C/2001 K5 (LINEAR)

2004 05 16.0856 0.964852  1.000989    1.2996 210.3103   99.5929     3.5 4.0  C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)

2008 02 20.9605 2.155534  0.396255    8.2570 335.2625   10.7044    12.0 4.0  P/2001 Q5 (LINEAR-NEAT)

2011 08 26.9569 3.428181  0.176353  115.1897 31.0663    7.9182    14.5 2.0  P/2001 YX127 (LINEAR)

2003 09 20.3767 5.738708  1.000318   75.0055 314.0860  117.2609    11.0 2.0  C/2002 J5 (LINEAR)

2004 04 6.6608  7.034054  0.999559 231.4780  110.3918   68.4494 8.5  2.0  C/2002 L9 (NEAT)

2004 04 22.3686 0.618794  1.000454  158.0842 95.1454  160.5268     4.0 4.0  C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)

2006 02 6.9599  6.797678  0.965166 100.0772   35.0076   70.5233 9.5  2.0  C/2002 VQ94 (LINEAR)

2003 11  8.9123 11.431214  1.001469  346.8106 154.5655    8.0693     3.5 4.0  C/2003 A2 (Gleason)

2011 05 18.0814 3.026316  0.246810   42.8064 133.1125   12.3304    14.5 2.0  P/2003 CP7 (LINEAR-NEAT)

2004 02 14.0755 3.251041  0.764584  104.0489 137.0380   33.5013    12.5 2.0  C/2003 E1 (NEAT)

2008 05 18.2471 1.060517  0.629913  188.7844 66.3929   25.5532    16.5 2.0  P/2003 KV2 (LINEAR)

2004 10 14.0421 1.023302  1.000681  198.4827 18.7031  134.2026     3.5 4.0  C/2003 K4 (LINEAR)

2003 03 12.9087 5.023245  0.252583  355.8436 226.0150    9.0191     8.5 4.0  P/2003 L1 (Scotti)

2004 04 28.7274 1.478078  0.999028   43.6950 347.0548   50.5448     5.0 4.0  C/2003 T3 (Tabur)

2005 04 3.6829  0.851298  1.000536 181.6896   93.8697   86.7980 6.0  4.0  C/2003 T4 (LINEAR)

2006 04 10.7685 5.191530  1.001204   92.4906 48.4447   31.4141     9.0 2.0  C/2003 WT42 (LINEAR)

2004 09 7.6044  5.483336  0.311545 21.9597  124.9813   10.5505 6.5  4.0  P/2004 A1 (LONEOS)

2006 02 7.7711  1.602672  1.000963 327.9052  272.8064  114.1023 10.5  2.0  C/2004 B1 (LINEAR)

2006 02 10.8235 4.975594  1.000141   75.5658 62.2509   45.5393    11.5 2.0  C/2004 D1 (NEAT)

2004 10 3.7961  4.091802  0.442724 41.2283  147.5101   14.4908 13.5  2.0  P/2004 DO29 (Spacewatch-LINEAR)

2005 01 5.1475  2.867133  0.286637 176.3565   78.8185   15.9873 9.0  4.0  P/2004 F3 (NEAT)

2004 08 5.1375  4.108776  0.167442 239.7453  327.1850    2.1270 12.5  2.0  P/2004 FY140 (LINEAR)

2005 07 5.2535  3.399302  0.998764 97.8052  326.9769  153.7476 7.0  4.0  C/2004 K1 (Catalina)

2005 11 15.2849 3.778491  0.996025  257.3303 99.1658   62.5275     7.0 4.0  C/2004 L2 (LINEAR)

2005 01 23.9097 1.205150  0.998278   19.5460 93.4637   38.7253     5.5 4.0  C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)

2003 04 17.3896 8.865640  1.001734  259.7444 50.3477   71.9640     2.5 4.0  C/2004 T3 (Siding Spring)

2005 03 3.7831  4.422720  0.445921 88.1748   47.8555   19.3490 8.0  4.0  P/2004 V5 (LINEAR-Hill)

2005 09 17.1235 2.391298  0.524442   66.0613 70.4741   18.6651    10.0 4.0  P/2004 VR8 (LONEOS)

2006 02 23.6116 3.204756  1.000780  103.1851 195.5593   92.5336     6.5 4.0  C/2005 B1 (Christensen)

2006 02 23.5517 1.518235  1.000130   39.9543 347.8248   17.0006     5.5 4.0  C/2005 E2 (McNaught)

2007 03 5.8272  3.886247  1.003317 261.4917  344.8049  130.6784 11.5  2.0  C/2005 EL173 (LONEOS)

2006 02 27.6656 4.960733  1.000774  113.8459 299.5790  108.4244     8.0 4.0  C/2005 G1 (LINEAR)

2005 08 11.2908  4.029657  0.375557 90.4236  224.3006    3.2752 10.0  4.0  P/2005 JD108 (Catalina-NEAT)

2006 02 21.4646  2.125675  0.433804 117.6120  207.9758   20.2325 11.5  4.0  P/2005 JY126 (Catalina)

2005 11 21.0700 3.694126  1.002200  134.9610 106.3070   77.7580     7.0 4.0  C/2005 K1 (Skiff)

2005 12 13.8874 3.144826  0.209169  149.7113 138.3205    7.7353     9.5 4.0  P/2005 L1 (McNaught)

2008 01 15.7890 5.593348  1.000719   47.0708 288.7334  139.4448     4.0 4.0  C/2005 L3 (McNaught)

2005 05 16.7145 3.595954  0.927660  324.9127 304.9343  156.0263    13.5 2.0  C/2005 O1 (NEAT)

2005 08 24.7702 6.407292  1.002664   44.6482 87.7470  105.1952     6.0 4.0  C/2005 Q1 (LINEAR)

2005 02 10.5077 2.126141  0.379394    3.0981 312.6985   10.2408    10.5 4.0  P/2005 R2 (Van Ness)

2006 03 7.5052  5.187252  0.996838 6.8321   63.7718  164.0137 7.0  4.0  C/2005 R4 (LINEAR)

2006 11 6.7117  3.607468  0.166172 191.6025  246.9266    9.8832 9.5  4.0  P/2005 RV25 (LONEOS-Christensen)

2006 06 27.5241 6.397758  0.197274  229.7378 161.2471    3.1404     7.5 4.0  P/2005 S2 (Skiff)

2007 07 18.8393 5.850250  0.998933   31.4726 318.2910  107.9595     5.0 4.0  C/2005 S4 (McNaught)

2007 02 11.2148 3.818238  0.463223   83.5593 1.6880   24.0993    12.0 2.0  P/2005 SB216 (LONEOS)

2006 03 27.1857 3.330291  0.823681  111.6390 336.6039   11.2683     9.5  4.0 C/2005 W2 (Christensen)

2006 12 7.9163  1.993363  0.989996 234.6826  302.1822   40.5641 10.0  4.0  C/2005 YW (LINEAR)

2004 12 28.7179 3.356560  0.467220  194.7210 94.5941   19.1789     9.0 4.0  P/2005 Y2 (McNaught)

2006 02 22.1715 0.556048  0.999826  351.2186 211.3706   92.7094     9.0 3.2  C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski)

2006 07  3.2436  1.751451 0.991804  143.4252  243.8074 144.2624    14.5  2.0 C/2006 CK10 (Catalina)

2007 01  7.0194  6.040641 1.001939  232.8285   95.0330 83.1936     6.0  4.0 C/2006 E1 (McNaught)

2008 02 19.6370 4.119149  0.121444  186.8454 124.7580   21.2626     8.0 4.0  P/2006 F1 (Kowalski)

2006 08 18.3515 2.632384  0.453015  313.9213 299.2449   18.5628    12.0 4.0  P/2006 G1 (McNaught)

2007 01 2.2688  1.226252  0.843037 117.4001  309.9525   31.8860 11.0  4.0  P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring)

2006 09 29.1935 2.265486  1.001681  359.9329 228.1228   45.8061    11.0 4.0  C/2006 HW51 (Siding Spring)

2007 07 20.5801 4.425491  1.001681  296.4456 72.1158   53.8765     7.5 4.0  C/2006 K1 (McNaught)

2007 03 13.3483 2.501327  1.000899  328.0697 49.4022   92.6164     8.0 4.0  C/2006 K3 (McNaught)

2007 11 29.3278 3.188571  0.998055  233.6117 116.6024  111.3435     6.0 4.0  C/2006 K4 (NEAT)

2006 10 17.9938 1.461647  0.997276  338.3967 101.7651  143.2438    12.0 4.0  C/2006 L1 (Garradd)

2006 11 20.2341 1.994203  1.001054   48.0496 239.2486  101.0199     9.0 4.0  C/2006 L2 (McNaught)

2007 02 13.9426 3.556293  0.977316  122.8935 231.6166   54.8744     8.5 4.0  C/2006 M1 (LINEAR)

2006 09 28.6922 0.783051  1.000054   62.5891 148.7273  111.8223     8.5 4.0  C/2006 M4 (SWAN)

2008 09 15.7002 2.431667  1.000599   95.6068 318.5095   30.1700     5.5 4.0  C/2006 OF2 (Broughton)

2007 01 12.7716 0.170959  0.999999  155.9923 267.4085   77.8422     6.0 4.0  C/2006 P1 (McNaught)

2008 07 3.8154  2.763723  0.999975 344.3696  199.5504   59.0437 5.0  4.0  C/2006 Q1 (McNaught)

2006 06 15.4796 3.039465  0.271164  188.9302 139.1422   16.3152    11.0 4.0  P/2006 R2 (Christensen)

2007 05 7.3488  3.161432  1.002063 166.3423  113.8886   98.9751 10.0  4.0  C/2006 S2 (LINEAR)

2012 04 15.2605 5.142529  1.001055  139.9614 38.3496  166.0343     2.0 4.0  C/2006 S3 (LONEOS)

2006 06 1.7944  3.068168  0.508472 305.7347   36.1338 39.6254    11.0  4.0 P/2006 S4 (Christensen)

2007 12 9.7459  2.629717  0.973355 182.1322  281.5549   10.1318 8.0  4.0  C/2006 S5 (Hill)

2006 10 7.4184  0.990965  0.671926 179.5492  279.7798   18.3287 10.5  4.0  P/2006 T1 (Levy)

2007 01 18.8293 2.325785  0.340881   98.3695 5.0928    3.4307    12.5 4.0  P/2006 U5 (Christensen)

2008 06 5.4220  2.498022  0.998733 276.5992  180.1881   84.8755 8.0  4.0  C/2006 U6 (Spacewatch)

2007 11 26.5532  2.674926  0.989543 253.4092  335.7234   31.1193 8.0  4.0  C/2006 V1 (Catalina)

2007 08 10.8895  1.015240  1.000249 174.1144   66.0275  134.7932 10.5  4.0  C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)

2009 07 6.3280  3.126556  1.000527 133.4755  113.5652  127.0699 5.0  4.0  C/2006 W3 (Christensen)

2009 01 20.5799 4.434702  0.316433  249.6533 243.2635   36.3630     8.5 4.0  P/2006 W4 (Hill)

2006 03 5.9362  6.126114  1.000681 101.2960  255.2421   42.6178 7.0  4.0  C/2006 X1 (LINEAR)

2007 07 21.9017 1.804364  0.992627  187.4207 318.6624   30.6306    10.0 4.0  C/2006 XA1 (LINEAR)

2007 02 9.9345  2.102254  0.420813 41.3060   78.4530    9.0779 14.5  4.0  P/2006 XG16 (Spacewatch)

2006 09 11.5769 4.947741  0.999900  335.4945 154.2894   69.5746     8.0 4.0  C/2006 YC (Catalina-Christensen)

2007 01 19.9360 2.442818  0.580754   46.9049 77.7845   12.3752    13.5 4.0  P/2007 B1 (Christensen)

2008 08 20.5437 2.974503  0.996724  205.9741 14.8738   27.4925     6.0 4.0  C/2007 B2 (Skiff)

2007 03 5.3349  2.051015  0.412576 95.6417   57.1165    8.0218 15.0  4.0  P/2007 C1 (Christensen)

2007 09 4.5774  3.779704  0.462190 179.4523  276.1179    8.6745 10.0  4.0  P/2007 C2 (Catalina)

2007 06 21.1311 8.792455  1.001665  340.2519 171.0960   41.4599     3.5 4.0  C/2007 D1 (LINEAR)

2007 05 27.6505 5.209154  0.992085  309.0893 148.4273   45.9207     7.5 4.0  C/2007 D3 (LINEAR)

2007 05 23.8294  1.285811  0.980275 7.1019  153.8294  174.3941 12.5  4.0  C/2007 E1 (Garradd)

2007 03 27.5060  1.093029  0.999617 340.5448  232.4361   95.8881 9.5  4.0  C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)

2007 10 28.7339 0.402245  1.000119  153.7139 172.8859  116.0747    10.0 4.0  C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)

2008 11 16.3846 2.645409  1.001342  224.0392 78.9940   88.3586     5.5 4.0  C/2007 G1 (LINEAR)

2007 08 17.6643 2.280987  0.378019  202.6177 144.3753   11.8738    10.0 4.0  P/2007 H1 (McNaught)

2007 08 15.3000 1.829276  0.477522  350.1332 263.6575   25.2163    14.0 4.0  P/2007 H3 (Garradd)

2006 11 14.8891 5.369280  1.001535   93.7614 65.5250   89.8394     8.0 4.0  C/2007 JA21 (LINEAR)

2007 05 7.0283  9.237629  0.977353 51.9334  294.6407  108.4197 6.0  4.0  C/2007 K1 (Lemmon)

2007 06 8.4887  2.267763  0.681914 345.6973  189.8622    7.6194 14.0  4.0  P/2007 K2 (Gibbs)

2008 04 21.8282 2.050821  1.000486   23.6081 263.2581   16.3002     9.5 4.0  C/2007 K3 (Siding Spring)

2007 05 3.4810  3.527055  1.002154 162.3658   68.5160   98.5998 10.5  4.0  C/2007 K4 (Gibbs)

2007 05 1.9568  1.149179  0.976616 255.5844  193.7384   64.8839 14.0  4.0  C/2007 K5 (Lovejoy)

2007 07 1.9112  3.433880  0.987220 337.2294  298.0653  105.0969 11.0  4.0  C/2007 K6 (McNaught)

2008 08 16.594 7.45899   1.00000    53.035 326.814   139.736      6.0 4.0  C/2007 M1 (McNaught)

2008 12  8.412   3.54061 1.00000   220.663   357.292 80.926      8.0  4.0 C/2007 M2 (Catalina)

2007 09  4.6446  3.468807 0.979681  125.7359   41.6132 161.7620     9.5  4.0 C/2007 M3 (LINEAR)

2007 09 13.288   2.04604   0.41643 274.297   106.446     8.756 13.0  4.0  P/2007 N1 (McNaught)

2009 01 10.881   1.21284   1.00000 136.846   338.510   178.376 6.5  4.0  C/2007 N3 (Lulin)

2007 06  3.2530  2.876656 1.004789  159.3907  116.2335 24.3855    10.0  4.0 C/2007 O1 (LINEAR)