... Planets . Satellites . Asteroids . Comets . Surface Features . ... Asteroids are at first given provisional numbers by the Minor Planet Center (MPC ... half of February 1982, and it's the second asteroid discovered during that period ...
... The Hubble Space Telescope observed asteroid Vesta between November 28 and December 1, 1994, when Vesta was at a distance of ... Vesta is the most geologically diverse of the large asteroids and the only known one with distinctive light and dark areas ...
... T here are thousands of known asteroids and comets and undoubtedly many more unknown ... Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter . ... There are also some asteroids whose orbits carry them closer to the Sun than the ...
... P a s t seminars . Seminar council . " News about the asteroids hunting " . ... Moving celestial objects, including asteroids, are now sought with detector arrays ... United States to study comet and asteroid populations throughout the Solar System ...
... System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more ... Uranus . Neptune . Pluto . Asteroids . Comets . Meteorites . History . ...
... Was P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 A Comet Or An Asteroid? . What Is That Dark Stuff Made Of? ... Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... The answer isn't easy because comets and asteroids have so much in common: they are ...
... Flybys of two asteroids on the way to the comet are also planned. ... A flyby of the mainbelt asteroid 3840 Mimistrobell will occur about 300 days later ... A flyby of asteroid 2530 Shipka will take place approximately 2,100 days after ...
... been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 ... the break-up of a large comet or asteroid prior to impact," said Adriana Ocampo, a ...