Comet Ikeya–Seki
id:
comet-ikeya-seki-172-6501230
title:
Comet Ikeya–Seki
text:
- There are two comets named Ikeya–Seki: C/1965 S1, and C/1967 Y1, a.k.a. 1968 I, 1967n. Comet Ikeya–Seki, formally designated C/1965 S1, 1965 VIII, and 1965f, was a long-period comet discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Tsutomu Seki. First observed as a faint telescopic object on September 18, 1965, the first calculations of its orbit suggested that on October 21, it would pass just 450,000 km (280,000 mi) above the Sun's surface, and would probably become extremely bright. Comets can de
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Long-period comet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ikeya%E2%80%93Seki
date created:
2003-06-23T13:43:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T19:53:30Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16