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'6P/d'Arrest' is a periodic
comet in our
solar system.
In
1991,
Andrea Carusi and
Giovanni B. Valsecchi (
Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale, Rome), and
Ľubor Kresák and
Margita Kresáková (
Slovak Astronomical Institute, Bratislava) independently suggested this comet was the same as a comet observed by
Philippe de La Hire in
1678.
References
★ Carusi, A.; Valsecchi, G. B.; Kresák, Ľ.; Kresáková, M.; and
Sitarski, G.,
''Periodic Comet d'Arrest = Comet la Hire (1678)'', IAU Circular 5283, 1 (1990)
External links
★
6P at Kronk's Cometography