12. Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet
Found Year: 2014
Gary Bernstein and Pedro Bernardinelli made the discovery.
Place: Not specified
Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein identified the comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 UN271), a sizable comet in the Oort cloud, using archive footage from The Dark Energy Survey. When the Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein was originally photographed in October 2014, it was 2.7 billion miles from the Sun.
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The Bernardinelli CometBernstein is the largest known Oort cloud comet, with a nucleus diameter of at least 75 miles. It is predicted to pass slightly outside of Saturn’s orbit in January 2031, but as it won’t enter the inner Solar System, it won’t be visible to the unaided eye.
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