26P/Grigg–Skjellerup

26P/Grigg-Skjellerup is a comet that was passed in 1992 as a second objective of the Giotto probe of the ESA, only 200 km away.

The comet was named after the New Zealand teacher John Grigg and the Australian Telegraph technician John Francis Skjellerup. Grigg had discovered the comet on July 23, 1902 for the first time; Skjellerup discovered him in May 1922 by a new observation site in South Africa.

Grigg - Skjellerup is the source of Pi Puppiden meteor stream, which can be observed in the southern hemisphere of the earth on April 23. In this new mineral was discovered in 2003, which was named in honor of Brownleeit astronomers and planetary scientist Donald E. Brownlee.