Comet Holmes, officially 17P/Holmes, was found by Edwin Holmes, an English amateur astronomer, who noticed an unexpected bright, fuzzy object in the constellation Andromeda. It was soon seen to be a comet with a short orbital period of around seven years. It was faint for most of its history, and then, in 2007, it underwent one of the largest outbursts ever recorded for a comet, increasing in brightness by hundreds of thousands of times in a short time and becoming visible to the naked eye. Its expanding cloud of dust for a time became larger in size than the Sun, although much of the material was extremely thin.
Before and after
- 24 August 1892Construction of Goodison Park
- 9 September 1892Discovery of Amalthea
- 10 September 1892Birth of Arthur Holly Compton
- 10 October 1892Birth of Ivo Andrić
- 6 November 1892Discovery of Comet Holmes
- 4 December 1892Birth of Francisco Franco
- 9 December 1892Founding of Newcastle United F.C.
- 17 December 1892Launch of Vogue
- 1893Construction of Corinth Canal
More in Universe & space
- 1774Founding of Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- 13 March 1781Discovery of Uranus
- 23 November 1843Discovery of 4P/Faye
- 23 September 1846Discovery of Neptune
- 28 June 1851Discovery of 6P/d'Arrest
- 28 December 1904Discovery of 19P/Borrelly
The era
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