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