Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 6.03.2009 . ... To reveal the faint background galaxies and trace the comet's fading tail, the remarkable picture is a blended composite of telescopic exposures aligned with the both the stars and the speedy comet . The largest galaxies seen left of the comet's head or coma are cataloged as NGC 3016, NGC 3019, NGC 3020 and NGC 3024 and lie at a distance of 100 million light-years or so. ... Publications with keywords: comet . ... Little Planet Lovejoy . ...

home education > activities . ... This activity is mostly just calculations, but students will enjoy figuring out the angle by which an asteroid headed for Earth needs to be deflected to miss our planet.[h] . ... Students are encouraged to play out the motion and positions of a comet and the Earth, relative to the Sun. ... Cute little activity in which younger students "interview" the Sun as a way of encouraging them to research various topics on the Stanford Solar Center web site. [e] . ...

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). ...

... An estimate the rotation period of cometary nuclei is important for understanding and describing the physical processes of the cometary activity. Unfortunately, the measurements of the rotation periods of the comet nucleus depend on the model assumptions and it is one of the main reasons for the scatter of the estimates given in various articles for a given comet. ... Right: the image of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 obtained at the 6-m telescope. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

The Leonid meteors are set to make their annual return over the interval from 13th to 22nd November. ... During each close approach to the Sun, the comet sheds a stream of dust and small particles. ... This year is rather unusual, though, in that the Earth will come close to the edges of two of the more coherent dense dust trails, resulting in two main meteor showers, one on the Thursday, 13th November and the other on Wednesday, 19th November. ... See also: Leonid Meteors Site . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... The analysis shows, that asteroid ­ rubble pile loses its fast fragments in no time but the retaining fragments forms a compact structure immersed in dust ­ gas atmosphere, created by interaction of interplanetary medium with dispersed product of collisional evolution of asteroid. By interaction of an asteroid ­ rubble pile with interplanetary medium structures asteroid can increase its brightness on account of blowed up dust simulating phenomenon of distant comet's brightening. ...

Comets as the Object of Investigation. ... Stratification of Comets Atmospheres and Their Chemical Structure. ... Formation and Change of Surface Dust Layer of Periodical Comets' Nucleas and Their Evolution in Solar Radiation Field. ... Dynamics of Matter in Near-Nuclear Region of Comet Atmosphere in Adiabatic Approximation. ... Kinetic Theory of Gas Stream in Region of Transition between Condition of Continuum to Free-Moleculte Stream. ... Free-Moleculte Stream of Neutral Gas in Comet Atmosphere. ...

... 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! ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Plenty of information about the hazards of being a planet in our solar system. ... Listed Since July 15, 1998 . ... Web Site . http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ . ... Additional Information . Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

The following activities are included in the Universe at Your Fingertips guide. ... Clicking on each activity will take you to a "reviews" page where you can post a review, or read reviews posted by others who have used the activity. ... Activity Online . ... MOON AND PHASES . ... Observing Phases and Features . ... Modeling Moon Phases . ... SUN AND SEASONS . ... Observing the Sun Safely . ... Observing Where the Sun Sets . ... Making Pictures of Motion . ... Morning Star and Evening Star . ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...