NEOWISE

NEOWISE

English

NEOWISE on 11 July 2020

Orbital path of NEOWISE

NEOWISE analemma mapping over constellation map

Alternative forms

• Neowise, NeoWISE, NeoWise

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.

Proper noun

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.

Synonyms

• Comet NEOWISE / Comet Neowise / Comet NeoWISE / Comet NeoWise
• C/2020 F3 / C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) / C/2020 F3 NEOWISE

Hypernyms

• comet (type)
• Solar System (location)

Coordinate terms

• 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

• C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons