NEOWISE en · PROPN
Etymology
From being discovered in 2020 by the NEOWISE mission, a mission started in 2010 aboard the WISE space telescope (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). From NEO (“near-Earth object”)+WISE.
Meanings
- A comet in Solar System. Visible to the naked eye in 2020. The first comet easily visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter century.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neowise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| NeoWISE | alternative | lexicographic | |
| NeoWise | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
West · Kohoutek · Hyakutake · Hale-Bopp · Halley · McNaught
Hypernyms
Synonyms
Comet NeoWISE · Comet NeoWise · Comet Neowise · Comet NEOWISE