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All of the major comets for this year as we progress into 2010 have so far been predicted not to brighten above visual magnitude 9.0 and we have a few comets that are expected to reach that brightness for the year. Among our major comets are 81P/Wild 2, C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring), C/2009 O2 (Catalina), and C/2209 K5 (McNaught). Among our minor comets that are starting to come up or finally regress for this year are 118P/Shoemaker - Levy 4, 88P/Howell, 29P/Schwassman - Wachmann 1, C/2006 W3 (Christensen), and 65P/Gunn.

MAJOR COMETS -

81P/Wild 2