73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 or SW3 for short, is a periodic comet that has a 5.4 year orbital period and that has been actively disintegrating since 1995.

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