NEOWISE

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NEOWISE on 11 July 2020
Orbital path of NEOWISE
NEOWISE analemma mapping over constellation map

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Etymology

From being discovered in 2020 by the NEOWISE mission, a mission started in 2010 aboard the WISE space telescope (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). From NEO (near-Earth object)+WISE.

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NEOWISE

  1. A comet in 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.

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