A very experienced comet observer, John Bortle of Stormville, New York, calls C/2024 G3 "the Great Comet of 2025." He writes: ...
The Comet was a wooden paddle steamer built in Port Glasgow by John Wood & Sons in 1811-12 and ... Its name is a direct reference to the Great Comet of 1811, a celestial event in which a comet ...