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NEOWISE
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English
thumb|NEOWISE on 11 July 2020
thumb|Orbital path of NEOWISE
thumb|NEOWISE analemma mapping over constellation map
Alternative forms
en Neowise NeoWISE NeoWise
Etymology
From being discovered in 2020 by the NEOWISE mission, a mission started in 2010 aboard the WISE space telescope (en Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). From en NEO near-Earth object+WISE.
Proper noun
en comet starsystem/Solar System. Visible to the naked eye in 2020. The first comet easily visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter century.
Synonyms
Comet NEOWISE / Comet Neowise / Comet NeoWISE / Comet NeoWise
Hypernyms
comet type
Solar System location
Coordinate terms
en McNaught mul C/2006 P1 Great Comet of 2007 Southern Hemisphere
en Hale-Bopp mul C/1995 O1 Great Comet of 1997
en Hyakutake mul C/1996 B2 Great Comet of 1996
en West mul C/1975 V1 or mul C 1976 VI or mul C 1975n Great Comet of 1976
en Kohoutek mul C/1973 E1 or mul C 1973 XII or mul C 1973f
en Halley mul 1/P Halley Halley's Comet/Comet Halley
See also
en C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
en Asteroids