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C/2019 O3 (Palomar)

9/3/2026

C/2019 O3 (Palomar) is a distant Oort cloud comet that came to perihelion on 8 March 2021 at a distance of 8.82 AU (1.319 billion km) from the Sun. It is discovered from the Palomar Observatory in July 2019, and is one of eight comets named after it.

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C/2019 O3 (Palomar) is a distant Oort cloud comet that came to perihelion on 8 March 2021 at a distance of 8.82 AU (1.319 billion km) from the Sun. It is discovered from the Palomar Observatory in July 2019, and is one of eight comets named after it.

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