Category:Comet Discoverers

People who discovered, individually or jointly, one or more [[comet]]s.

*The most successful visual comet discoverer of all time was [[Jean-Louis Pons]], who claimed to have discovered thirty-seven; the second most prolific was [[William Robert Brooks]].
*The first female discoverer of a comet was [[Caroline Herschel]].
*The first [[telescope|telescopic]] discovery of a comet was made by [[Gottfried Kirch]] in 1680.
*The first photographic discovery of a comet was made by [[Edward Emerson Barnard]].
*By convention, comets are named after their discoverer or discoverers, but several of the most famous [[periodic comet]]s, such as [[Halley's Comet]] and [[Encke's Comet]], are in fact named after the person who first computed their orbit.