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C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones)

Comet
C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud discovered on November 18, 2000, by Syogo Utsunomiya and Albert F. A. L. Jones. The comet reached up to apparent magnitude 5.5, but was only 27 degrees from the Sun in... Wikipedia
Orbital period: millions of years (inbound); ~24,000 yr (outbound, if it survived)
Discovered: November 18, 2000
Max. orbital speed: 74.3 km/s (166,000 mph)