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- <text id=93AC0393>
- <title>
- Comets
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics
- Space
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Almanac</source>
- <hdr>
- Comets: Predicted Perihelion Passages of Comets, 1995
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Periodic comet<cell>Perihelion date<cell>Revolution period years<cell>Perihelion distance(au*)
- <row><cell type=a>deVico-Swift<cell type=a>Jan. 20<cell type=n>7.3<cell type=n>2.13
- <row><cell>Finlay<cell>May 5<cell>6.8<cell>1.04
- <row><cell>Clark<cell>May 31<cell>5.5<cell>1.04
- <row><cell>d'Arrest<cell>July 27<cell>6.5<cell>1.35
- <row><cell>Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak<cell>July 28<cell>5.5<cell>1.07
- <row><cell>Reinmuth 1<cell>Sep. 3<cell>7.3<cell>1.87
- <row><cell>Schwassmann-Wachmann 3<cell>Sep. 22<cell>5.5<cell>.93
- <row><cell>Jackson-Neujmin<cell>Oct. 6<cell>8.2<cell>1.38
- <row><cell>Longmore<cell>Oct. 9<cell>7.0<cell>2.40
- <row><cell>Hinda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova<cell>Dec. 26<cell>5.3<cell>.53
- </table>
- <p>* [1 au = approximately 93 million miles, or the distance between the Earth and the sun.]
- </p>
- <p>Source:The Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory.
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- </body>
- </article>
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