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- ↑ "Comet Names and Designations". International Comet Quarterly. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ↑ "C/1974 V2 (Bennett) – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- 1 2 G. W. Kronk (1999). Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. Vol. 5: 1960–1982. Cambridge University Press. pp. 434–436. ISBN 978-0-521-87226-3.
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- ↑ J. C. Bennett (1974). "How I found comet 1974h". The Astronomer. 11: 157–158. Bibcode:1974Astr...11..157B.
