Comet Hartley 2
Comet 103P/Hartley (Hartley 2) - NASA Science
Discovery Hartley 2 was discovered by Malcolm Hartley on March 15, 1986 using the Schmidt Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
Comet Hartley 2, designated as 103P/Hartley by the Minor Planet Center, is a small periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.48 years.
Hartley 2: The 'Weird' Comet - Space.com
Comet Hartley 2, discovered in 1986, has an odd shape, spins on two axes and spews out a jets of water and carbon dioxide.
Comet 103P/Hartley 2 | Space Reference
103P/Hartley 2 orbits the sun every 2,360 days (6.46 years), coming as close as 1.06 AU and reaching as far as 5.88 AU from the sun. 103P/Hartley 2 is about 1.6 ...
Comet 103P/Hartley 2 at perihelion: gas and dust activity
We aimed to assess gas and dust production rates, to study the gas and dust coma morphology, to investigate the behaviour of the refractory component.
Comet 103P/Hartley bright and high for observation
Comet Hartley 2 is a morning object during October 2023, its month track beginning in Auriga but quickly passing into Gemini.
Comet Hartley 2 with AFA & Unistellar
Join AFA & Unistellar in catching Comet Hartley 2 until October 25th! This hyperactive comet will brighten as it flies by the Earth and Sun.
The Hyperactivity and Dust Composition of the Comet Hartley 2 | News
The Hyperactivity and Dust Composition of the Comet Hartley 2 ... In November of 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission completed a flyby of the short-period ...
Comet Hartley 2 | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
The comet Hartley 2 is a relatively small and elongated comet - only about 0.6 x 0.4 kilometers in size. It orbits the sun every 6.46 years, ...
103P/Hartley 2 - NASA Planetary Data System
Comet 103P/Hartley 2, is a small periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.46 years. It was discovered by Malcolm Hartley in 1986 at the Schmidt Telescope ...
Close-up view of comet 103P/Hartley 2 - ESA Science & Technology
Comet 103P/Hartley 2 is a Jupiter-Family comet, with an orbital period of 6.46 years and perihelion near the Earth's orbit, at 1.05 AU from the Sun.
Periodic comet 103P/Hartley 2 is classed as a young, dwarf comet, with a nucleus roughly 2.2 kilometers (1.4 mile) across that rotates once every 18.1 hours.
At the heart of Hartley-2, a new breed of comet? - Phys.org
The comet's core is made of at least two different ices. Ground-based measurements suggest the presence of a third ice.
Comet 103P/Hartley | TheSkyLive
Comet 103P/Hartley is in the constellation of Virgo, at a distance of 684,580,362.4 kilometers from Earth. The current Right Ascension is 12h 35m 36s and the ...
Observations of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 at Lowell Observatory
We primarily observed the comet with a broadband R filter to observe its dust and with a narrowband CN filter to observe the gas.
EPOXI at Comet Hartley 2 | Science
EPOXI (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation) flew past comet 103P/Hartley 2, one with an unusually small but very active ...
The nucleus of 103P/Hartley 2, target of the EPOXI mission
2005), aimed at furthering our understanding of the nuclei of Jupiter Family Comets (JFCs) by flying on to a second comet and imaging its nucleus in detail. The ...
Shape, density, and geology of the nucleus of Comet 103P/Hartley 2
Comet 103P/Hartley 2 is a bi-lobed, elongated, nearly axially symmetric comet 2.33 km in length. Surface features are primarily small mounds <40 m across.
Flight of Comet Hartley 2 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
This video clip of EPOXI's Nov. 4 flyby of comet Hartley 2 is comprised of 40 frames taken from the spacecraft's Medium-Resolution ...
Quirky Comet Hartley 2 Confounds Theories on Early Solar System
Hartley 2, an unusual little comet, is forcing scientists on the EPOXI mission to reevaluate theories about comet formation, behavior, ...