1. Find out about two comets and complete the table below Comet name Year discovered How many years to complete an orbit Additional fact
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1. Find out about two comets and complete the table below Comet name Year discovered How many years to complete an orbit Additional fact
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Comet Arend-Roland
November 8–9, 1956
3.3 years
• Comet Arend-Roland (1956h) displayed in late April a remarkable spike-like tail directed roughly towards the Sun. This tail developed from a diffuse fan-shape on April 22 to a long and narrow spike attaining its maximum reported length of 15° on April 25.9 U.T., according to the observation of Fogelquist1.
Biela’s Comet
February 27, 1826
6.6 years
• Biela's Comet or Comet Biela (official designation: 3D/Biela) was a periodic Jupiter-family comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and finally identified as periodic in 1826 by Wilhelm von Biela. It was subsequently observed to split in two and has not been seen since 1852.
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