SpazePeriodic comet, “devil comet”
Pons-Brooks
Nicknamed the devil comet after outbursts gave it horn-like shapes. It returns every 71 years: next in 2095.
- Size
- 30 km
- Orbit
- 71.3 years
- Distance from Sun
- 0.8 to 33.6 AU
Can we live on Pons-Brooks?
Air: only a faint trace of H₂O, CO, CN, far too thin to breathe. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Ground: Ice and dust.
Atmosphere
- H₂O
- CO
- CN
Measured by ground spectra