You can now buy the recently released book, Fall of a Thousand Suns: How Near Misses and Comet Impacts affected the Religious Beliefs of our Ancestors. It is available through iBooks and Amazon.

This website only lists information on modern-day comets and meteor showers. The book, however, thoroughly investigates how specific ancient impacts and near misses changed religious beliefs around the world.

Brightest Comets in 21st Century

A List of The Brightest Comets in the 21st century

The International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) "is a non-profit scientific journal [ISSN 0736-6922] devoted to the observation, news, and study of comets; it serves as a link between amateur and professional astronomers in the exchange of useful observations (following a standardized format) and news regarding all comets." Recently, it compiled a list of the brightest comets since 1935. The brightest comets in the 21st century, from 2000 to 2013, are ranked below in order of apparent magnitude.

-5.5	C/2006 P1	Comet McNaught
-0.5	C/2002 V1	Comet NEAT
1.0	C/2011 L4	Comet PANSTARRS
2.2	C/2002 T7	Comet LINEAR
2.5	C/2000 WM1	Comet LINEAR
2.8	C/2001 Q4	Comet NEAT
2.9	153P C/2002 C1	Comet Ikeya-Zhang
3.0	C/2001 A2	Comet LINEAR
3.3	C/2004 F4	Comet Bradfield
3.5	C/2004 Q2	Comet Machholz

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