Comet 88p Howell

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #ffffff">Comets have been the most unpredictable celestial travellers. They suddenly appear out of nowhere and then disappear. One such apparition of the skies is the recent discovery, comet Howell. A tailless comet, it shows up in the twilight hour, is the brightest in the sky and travels through the eastern skies. Comet Howell is visible only in the southern hemisphere. It is a short–period comet that belongs to the Jupiter family. Let us explore this comet in detail.</p>
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Comet 6p/D’arrest

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #ffffff">Comets, stars, moon and other celestial bodies are a source of intrigue. Out of these, some comets appear to play hide and seek while some of them chart their course persistently. One such comet is the comet d’ Arrest. It lies totally within the inner solar plane. Comet d’ Arrest has been travelling on its elliptical orbit between Mars and Jupiter and has completed about 19 revolutions around the Sun. This comet is amongst the largest and the most active one from the group of short–period comets of the Jupiter family. Let us learn in detail about this comet.</p>
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Comet 21p/Giacobini–Zinner

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #ffffff">The dark of the night is shattered by the spectacular shower of a thousand meteorites from an October sky. This phenomenon is attributed to only a handful of comets. Comet Giacobini–Zinner is one amongst them. On one of its favourable returns to our solar system in 1933 and 1946, the Giacobini–Zinner rained meteorites. This shower of meteorites is called as Draconids, October Draconids and Giacobinids. These showers occur every year in October but are faintly visible. Counted as the brightest of the comets, it was once the target of the International Cometary Explorer spacecraft that passed through its tail. The 21st comet to be discovered belonging to the Jupiter family of short period comets, Giacobini–Zinner is a unique comet. Let us learn more about this comet.</p>
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