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Astronomers Puzzled over Comet LINEAR's Missing Pieces

Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small as smoke-sized particles and as large as football-field-sized ...

Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small as smoke-sized particles and as large as football-field-sized.

Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear - HubbleSite

To the surprise and delight of astronomers, the Hubble telescope discovered a small armada of "mini-comets" left behind from what some scientists had ...

The Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 21, 2001

Detailed analysis of Comet LINEAR's disintegration last summer has left astronomers ... comet broke into pieces too small for them to see.

THE STUDY OF COMETS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Roemer (USA), P. Swings (Belgium), V. Vanysek (Czechoslovakia),. F. L. Whipple (USA). The discovery of Comet Kohoutek (1973f) in March.

Impact Hazard Case Study, 2 July 1999 - SwRI Boulder

As astronomers searched for the returning long-period comet Swift ... astronomers in the U.S. and consternation on the part of non-American scientists.

Infrared Observations of Comets Wilson and of the Halley and ...

The nucleus of. Comet. Halley taken by the llalley. Multicolour. Camera on the. ESA. GIOTTO spacecraft. This picture is a composite.

Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear - SpaceNews

“mini-comets” left behind from what some astronomers had prematurely thought was a total disintegration of Comet LINEAR's solid nucleus ...

Sulphur-bearing species in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov ...

During the more active part of the mission close to ... 2016), this pathway does not seem to work for Sn and the puzzle of the missing by-products remains.

On the differences between the new and old comets - NASA ADS

Objects of small perihelion distance are not missing among the new comets ... comets, P >. 200yr., which. meet this condition.'Marsden's (1976) list ...

Catalog | SpringerLink

... P/ comet Kopff is still missing. [817]. Roemer (U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, Arizona, USA) recovered comet 22P/Kopff on June 25, 1958 [818].

History of Astronomy, by George Forbes - Project Gutenberg

We have records of observations carried on under Asshurbanapal, who sent astronomers to different parts ... through such part of a comet's orbit, a meteor shower ...

Halley's Comet in its Apparition of 1909-1911 - NASA ADS

The central part of the comet was observed by Wirtz, on December 13, to be elongated in p. a. 700 and on December 14, in p~ a. 95° which roughly agrees with ...

Oxygen-bearing organic molecules in comet 67P's dusty coma

We report first evidence for abundant extraterrestrial O-bearing heterocycles (with abundances relative to methanol often on the order of 10% and a relative ...

COMETS IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ASTRONOMY - Narit

Celestial objects and phen- omena were believed to be intricately tied to events on the Earth. Because of this, rare cosmic events, such as a bright meteor, ...

C ommunicating A stronom y with the P ublic 2007 - Eso.org

(2007), Bright comet passes over Alaska, Anchorage Daily ... Dutch educational material on infrared astronomy will also be produced as part of the ESA/.

Journal for the History of Astronomy

... Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 11--26 Michael Hoskin and Brian Warner Caroline Herschel's Comet Sweepers . . . 27--34 Noel M. Swerdlow On ...

The Comet Interceptor Mission | Space Science Reviews

All comets already visited by spacecraft have undergone shape changes through sublimation and specific surface evolution processes during ...

Sulphur-bearing species in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov ...

2016), this pathway does not seem to work for Sn and the puzzle of the missing by-products remains. 5.4 Implication of volatile S2 on cometary ...

Astronomers conducting post-mortem on Comet LINEAR - SpaceNews

Puzzled by what appeared to be a rapid disintegration of the nucleus, Weaver and colleagues decided to look more carefully at the comet using ...