273P/Pons-Gambart (a.k.a. 273P/1827 M1, 1827 II, 273P/2012 V4)
7P/Pons-Winnecke (a.k.a. 7P/1819 L1, 1819 III, 7P/1858 E1, 1858 II, 7P/1869 G1, 1869 I, 1869a, 1875 I, 1875b, 1886 VI, 1886d, 1892 IV, 1892c, 1898 II, 1898a, 1909 II, 1909d, 1915 III, 1915b, 1921 III, 1921b, 1927 VII, 1927c, 1933 II, 1933b, 1939 V, 1939c, 1945 IV, 1945a, 1951 VI, 1951c, 1964 I, 1964b, 1970 VIII, 1970b, 1976 XIV, 1976f, 1983 IV, 1983b, 1989 VIII, 1989g)
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The comets are named after the prolific early 19th-century astronomer Jean-Louis Pons, who worked at Marseilles Observatory, Lucca, and Florence observatories. Some comets were discovered by Pons gained other names, for example Encke's Comet was called by Encke, Pon's Comet.[1]
^Roemer, Elizabeth (1960). "Jean Louis Pons, Discoverer of Comets". Leaflet of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 8 (371): 159. Bibcode:1960ASPL....8..159R.
I) C/1827 P1 (a.k.a. 1827 III) CometPons may also be a partial reference to: Comet Nicollet-Pons, C/1821 B1 12P/Pons-Brooks (a.k.a. 12P/1812 O1, 12P/1883...
An expert on comets, his calculation of orbits of previously identified CometPons 1818 II, Comet Coggia-Winnecke 1873 VII, and Comet Forbes 1928 III...
meteor shower occurs when the Earth crosses the orbit of CometPons-Winnecke, a short-period comet which orbits the Sun about every 6.3 years. They are very...
expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three. The long-period comet first recorded by Pons in Florence on 15 July...
The Great Comet of 1823, also designated C/1823 Y1 or Comet De Bréauté-Pons, was a bright comet visible in the last month of 1823 and the first months...
also co-discovered Comet C/1801 N1 (CometPons-Messier-Méchain-Bouvard), a discovery shared with several other observers including Pons, Méchain, and Bouvard...
Jean-Louis Pons in 1818. Its orbit was calculated by Johann Franz Encke, who through laborious calculations was able to link observations of comets in 1786...
co-discovered a large number of comets, including the periodic comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke and the comet once known as "Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes" but later...
famous comets discovered by Pons include 7P/Pons–Winnecke, 12P/Pons–Brooks, and 273P/Pons–Gambart, among many others. (see also CometPons) Pons also discovered...
being one of the most prolific discoverers of new comets of all time, second only to Jean-Louis Pons. William Robert Brooks was born in Maidstone, England...
The Great Comet of 1811, formally designated C/1811 F1, is a comet that was visible to the naked eye for around 260 days, the longest recorded period of...
(3 mi). The nucleus is similar in size to Comet Hyakutake and many short-period comets such as 2P/Encke, 7P/Pons-Winnecke, 8P/Tuttle, 14P/Wolf, and 19P/Borrelly...
years to the comet of 1812, now known as 12P/Pons-Brooks. Following a suggestion by Jean-Louis Pons, who suspected one of the three comets discovered in...
Comet Brooks may refer to any one of 17 comets: C/1885 R1 (a.k.a. 1885 III, 1885c) C/1885 Y1 (a.k.a. 1885 V, 1885f) C/1886 H1 (a.k.a. 1886 V, 1886a) C/1886...
comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen)...
F. Nursey, profiled in Popular Science in 1921 amid the appearance of CometPons–Winnecke , made a living in the same park and when he died in 1932 while...
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