Encke may refer to: *

Johann Franz Encke Johann Franz Encke (; 23 September 179126 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and made observations ...

(1791–1865), a nineteenth-century German astronomer ** Encke (crater), a lunar crater ** Encke Division, a dark gap in the rings of Saturn **

Comet Encke Comet Encke , or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This is the shortest period of a reasonably bright comet; the faint main-belt comet 311P/PanSTARRS h ...

, a short-period comet *** Encke (horse) (2009–2014), a thoroughbred racehorse named after the comet * Erdmann Encke (1843-1896), German sculptor

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