NEOWISE
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Proper noun
[edit]NEOWISE
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- Comet NEOWISE / Comet Neowise / Comet NeoWISE / Comet NeoWise
- C/2020 F3 / C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) / C/2020 F3 NEOWISE
Hypernyms
[edit]- comet (type)
- Solar System (location)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- McNaught (“C/2006 P1”) (Great Comet of 2007) (Southern Hemisphere)
- Hale-Bopp (“C/1995 O1”) (Great Comet of 1997)
- Hyakutake (“C/1996 B2”) (Great Comet of 1996)
- West (“C/1975 V1 or C 1976 VI or C 1975n”) (Great Comet of 1976)
- Kohoutek (“C/1973 E1 or C 1973 XII or C 1973f”)
- Halley (“1/P Halley”) (Halley's Comet/Comet Halley)
See also
[edit]- C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons