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Category:Discoverers of comets

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People who discovered, individually or jointly, one or morecomets.

The most successful visual comet discoverer of all time wasJean-Louis Pons, who claimed to have discovered thirty-seven; the second most prolific wasWilliam Robert Brooks.
The first woman known to have discovered comets wasCaroline Herschel.
The firsttelescopic discovery of a comet was made byMaria Winkelmann Kirch in 1680.
The first photographic discovery of a comet was made byEdward Emerson Barnard.
By convention, comets are named after their discoverer or discoverers, but several of the most famousperiodic comets, such asHalley's Comet, discovered byEdmond Halley, andEncke's Comet, found byJohann Franz Encke, are in fact named after the person who first computed their orbit.