Unlike the other small bodies in the solar system, comets have been known since antiquity. ... As of 1995, 878 comets have been cataloged and their orbits at least roughly calculated. ... When they are near the Sun and active, comets have several distinct parts: . ... A comet whose orbit takes it near the Sun is also likely to either impact one of the planets or the Sun or to be ejected out of the solar system by a close encounter (esp. with Jupiter). ... more comet images . ... HST images . ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... McCollough's MPEG Movie of Comet Hyakutake taken March 23 Explanation: This picture of Comet Hyakutake taken the night of March 21/22 in Illinois, USA shows the enormous tail that has already developed. ... As the comet moves into the inner Solar System , it will pass the Earth at about 40 times the distance of our Moon . ... Latest Comet Hyakutake images: JPL , Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia , Fayetteville Observer-Times , NASA's Night of the Comet . ... Publications with keywords: comet Hyakutake ...

Armagh Observatory, 13 November 2001: . The Leonid meteors, or shooting stars, are produced by debris from comet Tempel-Tuttle . ... Leonid Dust Trails . This year, however, according to calculations by Armagh Observatory astronomer Dr David Asher , the Leonid meteor shower will be exceptional in having several storm-level peaks on Sunday, 18th November superposed on the normal background level of activity. ... Leonid Dust Trail Theories (PDF Format) by David Asher . ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... What is the chance that Earth could pass through the debris field of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) and get a meteor shower? ... RELATED TOPICS: COMET ISON | COMETS | ... Earth already has passed through Comet ISON s debris field which occurred around January 12, 2014 but no one detected a meteor shower. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Halley's Comet . Spacecraft that have visited Halley's Comet . ... Then in 1984 and 1985, five spacecraft from the USSR, Japan and Europe were launched to make a rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986. ... This image is a mosaic of 8 images taken by the Giotto spacecraft during the Halley encounter on March 13, 1986. ... Courtesy NASA/JPL) . ... Halley's Comets in 1986 . This image of Halley's Comets was taken during its 1986 appearance. ... Cylindrical Map of the Nucleus of Comet Halley . ...

Here we have an images of Comet C/1998 U5 (LINEAR) passing NGC 7080 showing SN 1998ey on Dec.12 only a week after Ron Arbour discovered the SN. Jack was unaware that it was over the galaxy let alone that it showed the SN! . Image by Jack Schmidling . For more informat on comets, check the Comet chasing . Back to 1998ey . Back to 1998 Supernovae . Back to Bright Supernovae David Bishop Last modified: Wed Jul 18 12:47:37 EDT 2001

In Searching for Comet P/Tunguska-1908 . ... It finds explanation, however, in the New Explosive Cosmogony of minor bodies as having been caused by an explosion of a part ( up to 10 12 g) of the comet nucleus whose ices contained products of their electrolysis, 2H 2 + O 2 . ... Back integration of its orbit without allowing for non-gravitational effects suggests that it had passed the Earth on June 27, 1908 at a distance of 0.0659 AU. ...

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