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Donald Edward Machholz (October 7, 1952 –
August 9, 2022) was an
American amateur astronomer who was
credited with the
discovery of 12
comets that bear...
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Comet 96P/
Machholz or 96P/
Machholz 1 is a short-period
sungrazing comet discovered on May 12, 1986, by
amateur astronomer Donald Machholz on Loma Prieta...
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Comet Machholz,
formally designated C/2004 Q2, is a long-period
comet discovered by
Donald Machholz on
August 27, 2004. It
reached naked eye brightness...
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listed at JPL's SBDB (see list). back to main list This is a list of 141P/
Machholz (3 entries) with all its
cometary fragments listed at JPL's SBDB (see list)...
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Comet 141P/
Machholz or 141P/
Machholz 2 is a
periodic Jupiter family comet with an
orbital period of 5.3 years. It was
discovered by
Donald Machholz on 13 August...
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three new
comets that bear his name,
including Periodic Comet Machholz 1 96P/
Machholz on May 12, 1986. The
first official West
Coast Messier marathon...
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expected to
occur once
every sixty million years.
Comets Machholz 1 and
Hyakutake C/1996 B2 are
possible examples of such comets. They have...
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invented independently by
American astronomers Tom Hoffelder,
Donald Machholz, and Tom
Reiland in the 1970s.
Typically an
observer attempting a Messier...
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Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto) is a
comet that
follows a
slightly hyperbolic trajectory. It was
visually discovered on 7
November 2018 by
Donald Machholz...
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cannot be a
solar sibling. A 2019
study of the
comet C/2018 V1 (
Machholz–Fujikawa–Iwamoto)
found that it may be an
interstellar object, and identified...
