209P/LINEAR

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What Wikipedia says

209P/LINEAR is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 5.1 years. The comet has extremely low activity for its size and is probably in the process of evolving into an extinct comet. It will next come to perihelion in August 2029.

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Image: NASA/MSFC/Bill Cooke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.