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Comet Whipple
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Comet Whipple or Whipple's Comet may refer to any of the two comets discovered by American astronomer, Fred Lawrence Whipple, below:
- 36P/Whipple
- C/1937 C1 (Whipple)
It may also be a partial reference to an additional four comets that he had co-discovered with other astronomers:
- C/1932 P1 (Peltier–Whipple)
- C/1940 O1 (Whipple–Paraskevopoulos)
- C/1942 C1 (Whipple–Bernasconi–Kulin)
- C/1942 X1 (Whipple–Fedtke–Tevzadze)
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