Comet Pajdušáková, formally designated as C/1951 C1, is a faint non-periodic comet that appeared between February and May 1951. It was the fourth comet discovered overall by the Slovak astronomer Ľudmila Pajdušáková, and the first one she had discovered independently.
Physical characteristics Spectroscopic observations at the McDonald Observatory took place when the comet was around from the Sun. The data revealed that the surrounding coma had strong gas emissions of cyanogen (CN) compounds, with traces of amine () but no presence of diatomic carbon () molecules. Based on these findings, researchers concluded that this was a dynamically new comet from the Oort cloud, on its first journey to the inner Solar System.
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