Jupiter-family comets

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (abbreviated as 67P or 67P/C–G) is a Jupiter-family comet. It is originally from the Kuiper belt and has an orbital period of 6.45 years as of 2012, a rotation period of approximately 12.4 hours, and a maximum velocity of . Churyumov–Gerasimenko is approximately at its longest and widest dimensions. It was first observed on photographic plates in 1969 by Soviet astronomers Klim Ivanovych Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko, after whom it is named. It most recently came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 2 November 2021, and will next come to perihe

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{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat recent epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 2028 || 1.310 |- | 2022 || 1.306 |- | 2015 || 1.349 |- | 2008 || 1.355 |}

Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2 (pronounced "vilt two") ( ), is a comet with a period of 6.4 years named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it on January 6, 1978, using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald, Switzerland.

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat different epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 1894 || 1.23 |- | 1900 || 0.93 |- | 1985 || 1.03 |- | 2031 || 1.07 |- | 2078 || 0.97 |}

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; float:right; margin:2px" |- bgcolor= style="font-size: smaller;" | colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|Perihelion distanceat different epochs |- ! Epoch !! Perihelion(AU) |- | 1967 || 1.61 |- | 1974 || 1.26 |- | 1986 || 1.08 |- | 2013 || 1.05 |- | 2035 || 1.08 |- | 2046 || 1.22 |- | 2059 || 1.98 |- | 2095 || 2.01 |}

5D/Brorsen (also known as '''Brorsen's Comet or Comet Brorsen''') was a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered on February 26, 1846, by Danish astronomer Theodor Brorsen. The comet was last seen in 1879 and is now considered lost.

'''6P/d'Arrest (also known as d'Arrest's Comet or Comet d'Arrest''') is a periodic comet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter once every 6.54 years. It is the second of three comets discovered by German astronomer, Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest. It next comes to perihelion 1.35 AU from the Sun on March 31, 2028, when it is expected to brighten to around apparent magnitude 11.

11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR is a periodic comet with a 5.95-year orbit around the Sun.

14P/Wolf is a periodic comet with an 8.78-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by German astronomer, Max Wolf.

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41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák is a Jupiter-family comet with a 5.43-year orbit around the Sun. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and dynamical modeling estimate an effective nucleus radius of , corresponding to a diameter of roughly , smaller than earlier ground-based estimates.

Comet Schaumasse is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.2-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by French astronomer, Alexandre Schaumasse. It last came to perihelion on 8 January 2026 and will next come to perihelion on 16 March 2034.

28P/Neujmin, also known as Neujmin 1, is a large periodic comet in the Solar System. With a perihelion distance (closest approach to the Sun) of , this comet does not make close approaches to the Earth.

65P/Gunn is a periodic comet in the Solar System orbiting the Sun every 6.41 years inside the main asteroid belt between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

209P/LINEAR is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 5.1 years. The comet has extremely low activity for its size and is probably in the process of evolving into an extinct comet.

47P/Ashbrook–Jackson is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.35-year orbit around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by Joseph Ashbrook and the third and final one by Cyril V. Jackson.

Comet 96P/Machholz, also known as Machholz 1 is a periodic sunskirting comet discovered on 12 May 1986, by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz on Loma Prieta peak, in central California using binoculars. On 6 June 1986, 96P/Machholz passed from the Earth. 96P/Machholz last came to perihelion on January 31, 2023. The comet has an estimated diameter of around .

49P/Arend–Rigaux is a periodic comet with a 6.75-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of three comets discovered by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend and the only one for Fernand Rigaux.

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63P/Wild is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 13.21 years. It will next come to perihelion on 6 July 2026.

40P/Väisälä is a periodic comet that was discovered on February 8, 1939. Its orbit was determined on April 26, 1939. In 1994, the diameter of its nucleus was found to be , similar in size to that of Comet Encke. It came to perihelion on November 12, 2025.

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205P/Giacobini is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 6.68 years. It was discovered by Michel Giacobini on 4 September 1896 and then it was lost until it was recovered by Koichi Itagaki on 10 September 2008. The comet was then found to have fragmented into three pieces.

Comet Spitaler is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.1-year orbit around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by Austrian astronomer, Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler.

52P/Harrington–Abell is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

168P/Hergenrother is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet, originally named P/1998 W2, returned in 2005 and got the temporary name P/2005 N2. It was last observed in January 2020 and may have continued fragmenting after the 2012 outburst.

125P/Spacewatch is a Jupiter-family comet with a 5.53-year orbit around the Sun. It was discovered on 8 September 1991 by Tom Gehrels using the 0.91 m Spacewatch telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. It was the first comet discovered with the use of a CCD, and also the faintest comet upon discovery up to that point. Its nucleus has a diameter of .

Comet Taylor, also known as 69P/Taylor, is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.64-year orbit around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by South African astronomer, Clement Jennings Taylor.

108P/Ciffréo is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 7.25 years around the Sun. It is the only comet discovered by French astronomer, Jacqueline Ciffréo. The comet is noted for having a peculiar double morphology, in which the nucleus is accompanied by a comoving, detached, diffuse tail, which is probably a perspective artifact of particles ejected sunwards and then repelled by solar wind.

70P/Kojima is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 7.05 years.

130P/McNaught–Hughes is a Jupiter-family comet with a 6.22-year orbit around the Sun. It is the second of two comets co-discovered by Robert H. McNaught and Shaun M. Hughes.

210P/Christensen is a Jupiter family comet with an orbital period of 5.7 years. It was discovered by Eric J. Christensen on 26 May 2003 in images taken by the Catalina Sky Survey and recovered in images obtained by STEREO, the first time a single-apparition comet was recovered by a spacecraft.

Comet Hartley 1, also known as 100P/Hartley, is a Jupiter family comet with a 6.35-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of 12 comets discovered by Australian astronomer, Malcolm Hartley.

80P/Peters–Hartley is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 8.06 years around the Sun. It is the first of two comets discovered by German–American astronomer, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, later becoming lost and subsequently recovered by Australian astronomer, Malcolm Hartley.

126P/IRAS is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 13.4 years. It was discovered in images taken by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) on 28 July 1983 by J. Davies. The discovery was confirmed with images taken with the 1.2-m Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory.

56P/Slaughter–Burnham is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a period of 11.54 years. It is the second of two comets co-discovered by Robert Burnham Jr. and Charles D. Slaughter.

75D/Kohoutek is a periodic comet discovered in February 1975, by Luboš Kohoutek. Even on the discovery plate the comet was only apparent magnitude 14. Assuming the comet has not disintegrated the 2020-2021 perihelion passage is only expected to peak around apparent magnitude 20.

58P/Jackson–Neujmin is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 8.19 years.

Comet Maury, also known as 115P/Maury, is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.83-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of nine comets discovered by French astronomer, Alain J. Maury.

143P/Kowal–Mrkos is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

Comet Arend or 50P/Arend is a periodic comet in the Solar System which was discovered on October 4, 1951. It was discovered by astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium located in the municipality of Uccle. The comet was illustrated at approximately a magnitude of 14 and also exhibited a nucleus within a coma 14 arc seconds across. It has been observed on its every subsequent apparition since discovery, with the most recent one occurred in 2024. The comet's next perihelion will be in the year 2032.

117P/Helin–Roman–Alu, also known as Helin-Roman-Alu 1, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is a Quasi-Hilda comet.

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center" |+ The Outward Migration of 43P !Year (epoch)!!2017!!2020!!2025 |- |Semi-major axis || 3.35 || 4.30 || 4.33 |- |Perihelion || 1.35 || 2.39 || 2.44 |- |Aphelion || 5.34 || 6.20 || 6.22 |}

172P/Yeung is a Jupiter-family comet with a 6.59-year orbit around the Sun. It is the first of two comets discovered by Hong Kong/Canadian astronomer, William Kwong Yu Yeung.

64P/Swift–Gehrels is a periodic comet in the Solar System which has a current orbital period of 9.23 years.

Comet Hartley 3 is a periodic comet with a six-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of ten comets discovered by Australian astronomer, Malcolm Hartley.

158P/Kowal–LINEAR is a Jupiter-family comet with a 10.3-year orbit around the Sun. It is one of six comets discovered by American astronomer, Charles T. Kowal, and also one of several by the LINEAR program.

Comet 141P/Machholz or 141P/Machholz 2 is a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of 5.3 years. It was discovered by Donald Machholz on 13 August 1994. A few days after the discovery a number of condensations were found near the main component of the comet, indicating that the comet had fragmented between 1987 and 1989, during its previous perihelion.

92P/Sanguin, also called '''Sanguin's Comet or Comet Sanguin''', is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 1977, by Juan G. Sanguin at Leoncito Astronomical Complex.

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118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.

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102P/Shoemaker, also known as Shoemaker 1, is a Jupiter-family comet with a 7.47-year orbit around the Sun. It was first seen in 1984, and then again in 1991. Images taken of it in 1999 were not recognized until 2006 when it was once again observed. It was unexpectedly dim in each of these returns.

78P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 2, is a Jupiter-family comet with a current orbital period of 7.22 years. It is the second periodic comet discovered by American astronomer, Tom Gehrels.

91P/Russell, also known as Russell 3, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It was discovered by Kenneth S. Russell in 1983.

159P/LONEOS is a periodic comet in the Solar System.

152P/Helin–Lawrence is a Jupiter-family comet with a 9.52-year orbit around the Sun. It is the third comet co-discovered by Eleanor F. Helin and Kenneth J. Lawrence.

90P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 1, is a Jupiter-family comet in the Solar System. The comet nucleus is about 7.8 km in diameter.