From the dawn of history until the beginning of the 17th century the known universe consisted of only 8 bodies: . ... The number of bodies in the solar system increased dramatically in the 19th century with the discovery of the asteroids (464 of which were known at by 1899) but only 9 more "major" bodies were discovered. ... So far, in 20th century 40 more major bodies (and thousands of comets and asteroids) have been discovered (27 by the Voyager probes) more than doubling the count again to 73: . ...

... Helene 1980 P. Laques & J. Lecacheus Pandora 1980 S. Collins et. al. Prometheus 1980 S. Collins et. al. ... Puck 1985 Voyager 2 Belinda 1986 Voyager 2 Bianca 1986 Voyager 2 Cordelia 1986 Voyager 2 Cressida 1986 Voyager 2 Desdemona 1986 Voyager 2 Juliet 1986 Voyager 2 Ophelia 1986 Voyager 2 Portia 1986 Voyager 2 Rosalind 1986 Voyager 2 Despina 1989 Voyager 2 Galatea 1989 Voyager 2 Larissa 1989 Voyager 2 Naiad 1989 Voyager 2 Proteus 1989 Voyager 2 Thalassa 1989 Voyager 2 Pan 1990 Showalter . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... The name Discovery Date mag Size(m) Publication MASTER -Observatory --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS : 7 MASTER HAZARD Asteroid 2015 UM67 2015 Oct 28.88218 16.9 940m MPEC 2015-V01 MASTER -SAAO automatically MASTER software 6 MASTER rediscovered HAZARD Asteroid 2011 QG21 2015 Aug 17.94764 17.2 300m MPEC 2015-Q28 ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Discovery Image: Comet SOHO (1998 J1) . ... Credit Copyright: SOHO - LASCO Consortium , ESA , NASA Explanation: Staring at the Sun from a vantage point in space ( Kids , don't try this at home!), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) has enabled the discovery of much about our closest star. ... While not competing with Hale-Bopp , one of SOHO's recently discovered comets has proved to be bright enough to see with the unaided eye. ... Bright Comet SOHO ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. May 20, 1998 . Discovery Image: Comet SOHO (1998 J1) . Credit: SOHO - LASCO Consortium , ESA , NASA . Explanation: Staring at the Sun from a vantage point in space ( Kids , don't try this at home!), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) has enabled the discovery of much about our closest star. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... A team of Japanese scientists including Armagh astronomer Dr David Asher have announced the discovery of the second largest known Earth-crossing asteroid. The group is based at the new Japanese Spaceguard Centre at Bisei, west of Osaka. ... The subsequent tracking and orbit determination was assisted by Armagh asteroid expert David Asher, who is currently visiting Japan to help in the setting up of the new Spaceguard Centre funded by the Japanese government. ...

... The main topics of the Conference were: 1. ... Asteroid-comet hazard (origin and dynamic evolution of objects approaching the Earth, observations, physical properties, cataloguing, data bases, estimation of collision probability with the Earth and other bodies). ... 5) In this connection the problem of concluding the international political agreement within the frames of UN about common active counteractions to the bodies on the orbits leading to collisions with the Earth is urgent. ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Gallery Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar New Events & Discoveries . ... This page of Autostar Information gives you ephemerides for the latest astronomical events. ... Once you download the ephemeride file, you can drop the file onto the appropriate Autostar Update button to load the ephemeride into your Autostar. ... product information | ...

Comet discoveries made with the U. K. Schmidt Telescope Status as at 2005 Jan 17 Perihelion q Q a P e i g k Name 2002 09 05 2.31 4.9 3.60 6.8 0.359 24.4 7.0 8.0 77P/Longmore 2003 02 15 1.23 4.8 3.03 5.3 0.594 2.9 79P/du Toit-Hartley 2006 09 26 1.63 6.5 4.04 8.1 0.596 29.9 80P/Peters-Hartley 2006 04 05 2.18 5.6 3.87 7.6 0.436 18.2 83P/ Russell 2007 07 07 2.17 4.8 3.49 6.5 0.377 2.6 87P/Bus U 2002 03 22 2.29 5.3 3.80 7.4 0.398 12.0 89P/ Russell ...

... The planets are still growing slowly as comets and meteoroids collide with them. ... In the 1950s, American astronomer Fred Whipple suggested that comets are dirty snowballs: clumps of ice mixed with interplanetary dust. ... For most of its orbit, a comet remains far from the Sun, little more than the dirty snowball that it is -- what is usually called a bare nucleus. ... As Comet Hyakutake approached the Sun, jets of dust erupted from the Sun-facing side of its nucleus. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... I have been involved into the La Sagra asteroids team since the beginning of the La Sagra Observatory (OLS) in Andalusia, Spain in 2006. ... In the following years I contributed to the continuous improvements of the search methods and data reduction pipelines. ... There I got introduced to a study to examine the effect of host galaxy dust extinction on the observed properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). ... GRBs host galaxies photometry . ... Copyright 2012 Aleksandar Cikota. ...

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... Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids . ... The LINEAR program is operated by MIT Lincoln Laboratory under NASA and Air Force sponsorship . ... Dr. Stokes directs the development and operations of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program, under NASA and Air Force Space Command sponsorship. ... Dr. Stokes was honored with the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his four years of service to the Air Force Science Advisory Board. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc....

... 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 . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

... ASTEROID’S MOONS : DISCOVERY BY RADAR . ... Moons of known asteroids have a low position ambiguity, which makes their discovery with powerful ground-based radar much easier than the discovery of new asteroids or other objects of Solar System. ... The other technique is a direct detection of radar echo from an asteroid moon. ... However, the diameter of a ground-based fully-steerable reflector is limited by 120-150 m to make it possible to perform two different functions: focusing and tracking (fig. ...