print email comment close Great Comets in History URL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?great_comets Description: This site features a table that "is an attempt to list the great naked-eye comets that have been reported. With the single exception of periodic comet Halley, all the tabulated comets have passed through the inner solar system either for the first time or the intervals between their returns are measured in thousands or millions of years." Includes date, name, and apparent brightness. From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. Author: Yeomans, Donald K. Publisher: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology Extra Keywords NASA perigee perihelion LII Database Information: Record 24758 created by Maria Brandt on 10/22/2007 Last modification on 10/31/2007 Published: 11/01/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24758