News tagged with comet
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Cometary Impact on Neptune Two Centuries Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- (PhysOrg.com) -- A comet may have hit the planet Neptune about two centuries ago. This is indicated by the distribution of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of the gas giant that researchers ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2010 |
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En route to a comet, European probe Rosetta to fly by asteroid
A billion-euro (1.25-billion-dollar) European spacecraft will get up close and personal with an asteroid this Saturday as the probe blasts through the Solar System on its way to rendezvous with a comet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Earth to Lend Helping Hand to Comet Craft
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday (June 27).
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Comet Visible During Brief Visit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Comet McNaught is quickly approaching the sun this week, but it is visible with binoculars or telescopes in the early hours before dawn. The best views are away from city lights, according ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Comet cause for climate change theory dealt blow by fungus
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists - led by Professor Andrew C Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London - have revealed that neither comet nor catastrophe were the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Jupiter Impact: Mystery of the Missing Debris
On June 3rd, 2010, something hit Jupiter. A comet or asteroid descended from the black of space, struck the planet's cloudtops, and disintegrated, producing a flash of light so bright it was visible in backyard t ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Many famous comets originally formed in other solar systems
Many of the most well known comets, including Halley, Hale-Bopp and, most recently, McNaught, may have been born in orbit around other stars, according to a new theory by an international team of astronomers ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Amateur astronomer spots another Jupiter strike (w/ Video)
Jupiter has gotten whacked again.
Jun 04, 2010 |
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Epoxi Spacecraft Burns for Home, Then Comet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact/Epoxi spacecraft successfully performed a maneuver to refine its orbit prior to an upcoming Earth flyby June 27.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2010 |
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Post-mortem of a Comet: Scientists put the Comet Wild 2 under the microscope
Researchers at the University of Leicester are examining extraterrestrial material from a comet to assess the origins of our Solar System.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 28, 2010 |
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STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun (w/ Video)
Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 24, 2010 |
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The Edges of the Solar System
(PhysOrg.com) -- The solar system does not end abruptly past the planets. Beyond the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet (it orbits the sun at a distance of 30 AU, where one AU is the average distance of ...
May 07, 2010 |
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Where comets emit dust
Studying comets can be quite dangerous - especially from close up. Because the tiny particles of dust emitted into space from the so-called active regions on a comet's surface can damage space probes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Source of zodiac glow identified
(PhysOrg.com) -- The eerie glow that straddles the night time zodiac in the eastern sky is no longer a mystery. First explained by Joshua Childrey in 1661 as sunlight scattered in our direction by dust particles ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Dusty experiments are solving interstellar water mystery
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust may be a nuisance around the house but it plays a vital role in the formation of the key ingredient for life on Earth - water - according to researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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