Comet Siding Spring, discoveries made at
Siding Spring Observatory
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU), incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a co ...
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* Periodic comets:
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162P/Siding Spring
This is a list of periodic comets that were numbered by the Minor Planet Center after having been observed on at least two occasions. Their orbital periods vary from 3.2 to 366 years. there are 436 numbered comets (1P–436P), most of them bein ...
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389P/Siding Spring (P/2006 R1)
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468P/Siding Spring (P/2004 V3)
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P/2006 HR30
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P/2012 US27
* Non-periodic comets:
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C/2004 T3
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C/2006 HW51
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C/2007 K3
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C/2007 Q3
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring), is an Oort cloud comet that was discovered by Donna Burton in 2007 at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.Evans, Kate (February 19, 2010).'Australian' comet captured by NASA. Australian Broadcasting ...
, which came to perihelion in 2009
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C/2010 A4
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C/2012 OP
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C/2013 A1
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 3 January 2013 by Robert H. McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.
At the time of discovery it was 7.2 AU from the Sun and loca ...
, which made a close approach to Mars on 19 Oct 2014
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