... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

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• Armagh Observatory
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... Exoplanets . ... Artists impression of the blue exoplanet. ... This exoplanet is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, the fox, a faint pattern inside the Summer Triangle.ТљТљ This planet is a not too distant 63 light years away so has been studied by space-based telescopes.Тљ Data collected from Hubbleт??s Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) when this planet moved behind its star showed that in the shadow of the star the light reflected from HD 189733b reduced into the blue part of the spectrum. ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 5.08.2013 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. ... Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung back past the Earth, eight years ago, on its way in toward the planet Mercury . ... The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has recently concluded the first complete map of the surface . ... August . ... August 2013 . ... Publications with keywords: Earth . ...

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• Астронет > Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth
• Journal "Peremennye Zvezdy"

... 2006 January 16 . Stardust Capsule Returns to Earth . Credit : Stardust Team , NASA . ... The saucer, the Stardust return capsule, is carrying bits of Comet Wild 2 captured two years ago during a rendezvous between Stardust and the ancient comet. ... The bits of Comet Wild 2 stored in the Stardust return capsule are likely older than the Sun and will be inspected over the next few years for clues about the early years of our Solar System . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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• APOD: 2000 March 3 - Dust Storm on Planet Earth
• APOD: 2004 January 3 - Comet Wild 2's Nucleus from Stardust
• APOD: February 6, 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Returns

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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• Gravity correlates with Size

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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... Planet Finder Options I: Linear Nulling Arrays for Studying Earth-Like Planets . ... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... This paper shows options for configuring a symmetric linear nulling array as a Planet Finder. Of special interest are linked in-line pairs of identical sub-arrays with a quarter wave phase shift between them and staggered by half an element spacing. ...

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• Detection of Earth-like Planets with the COROT Space Mission
• Other Worlds From Earth
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... The Sun . Does anyone know how many stars are there in the solar system? Come take a look at the Sun. See that? ... Did you know all the stars you see when you look up are inside our galaxy! ... Did you know that our Sun and solar system were born in a cloud of gas and dust like this. ... We're looking at a place where stars are being born. ... Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

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• ASP: A Good Definition of the Word "Planet": Mission Impossible?
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Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

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• Chronology of early astronomy,mechanics and spaceflight
• Galileo to Jupiter
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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

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... Asteroid Introduction (This Page) . ... Asteroid Summary . Asteroids . Gaspra , Ida & Dactyl , Toutatis , Castalia , Vesta , Geographos, Mathilde . ... NEAR Spacecraft Homepage . Near-Earth Asteroid 3753 - Earth's Curious Companion . ... Then on October 1991 asteroid 951 Gaspra was visited by the Galileo spacecraft and became the first asteroid to have hi-resolution images taken of it. ... Both Gaspra and Ida are classified as S-type asteroids composed of metal-rich silicates. ... Gaspra . ...

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... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... Do other planets have meteor showers like Earth has? ... If so, can we learn anything about the planet's atmosphere by looking at the light as meteors burn? ... RELATED TOPICS: METEOR SHOWER . All planets in our solar system that have atmospheres also have meteor showers. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...