... Scheduled for launch in February 1999, Stardust will fly close to a comet and, for the first time ever, bring material from the comets coma back to Earth for analysis by scientists worldwide. ...
... Space mission “Rosetta” to the nucleus of comet 67п/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: goals ... K. I. Churyumov, I. Luk'yanyk “Modeling of comets 95p/chiron's and 29p/schwassmann ... complex evolution of the Temple- Tuttle comet from computer simulation results ...
... The orbit of Comet Halley, on the other hand, has e quite close to 1. The collection of all points for . ... Comets in general have an eccentricity e close to 1, suggesting they have come from the very distant fringes of the solar ...
... una missione verso le stelle potrebbe essere da una cometa, poich le traiettorie delle comete si estendono gi ai confini del Sistema Solare, e il ghiaccio d'acqua presente nelle comete potrebbe fornire l'idrogeno e l'ossigeno come propellente per i motori ...
... motion makes no difference. 22a. The aberration of starlight, comet tails etc. 22b Elementary notions about aerodynamics ... Aberration of the solar wind, comet tails. 22b Problems of flight near the speed of sound. 24. ...
... formed when a large meteoroid , asteroid or comet smashes into a planet or a ... researchers now believe that a large asteroid or comet hit the Earth at the end of ... The impact of an asteroid or comet several hundred million years ago left scars in ...
... Periapsis of the orbit will be as low as 24 kilometers above the surface of the asteroid. NEAR took photographs of Comet Hyakutake in March 1996. ...
... Phobos 1, and its companion spacecraft Phobos 2, were the next-generation in the Venera-type planetary missions, succeeding those last used during the Vega 1 and 2 missions to comet P/Halley . ...