How do comets get their names?

Every so often, a comet, an icy visitor from deep in the outskirts of the solar system, comes hurtling toward the Sun on a long orbit, dazzling us with the apparition of its ghostly coma and long, shimmering tail. How do these comets get their names? It depends. Sometimes these visitors make only one passContinue reading “How do comets get their names?”
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