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Trash comet 14 EP

C/1874 Q1 (Coggia)

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Comet +6
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Comet · +6
  • Has a proper name · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Its orbit family. A long-period comet falling in from the Oort Cloud, where it spent billions of years in the deep freeze before something nudged it loose.
  • Closest approach. At its nearest it comes within 1.69 AU of the Sun — inside the orbit of Jupiter.
  • One lap. A single orbit around the Sun takes it about 306 years.
  • How far it roams. Its orbit swings between 1.69 and 89.11 AU from the Sun.

Standing on it

  • Tail. Its tail always points away from the Sun, never trailing behind its motion — it is blown, not dragged.

By the numbers

  • Made of. A comet is a dirty snowball: water ice, frozen carbon dioxide and dust, held together loosely enough that some simply crumble when the Sun warms them.

What's in a name

  • Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.

Properties

aphelion au
89.12
designation
1874 Q1
eccentricity
0.9628
full name
C/1874 Q1 (Coggia)
inclination
34.13
mean motion deg day
0.0032
name
C/1874 Q1 (Coggia)
named
yes
orbit class
COM
perihelion au
1.688
semi major au
45.4

About C/1874 Q1 (Coggia)

C/1874 Q1 (Coggia) is a trash comet. It swings within 1.688 AU of the Sun at perihelion.

A long-period comet falling in from the Oort Cloud, where it spent billions of years in the deep freeze before something nudged it loose.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, C/1874 Q1 (Coggia) is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why C/1874 Q1 (Coggia) is a trash comet

C/1874 Q1 (Coggia) scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Comet and Has a proper name — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.