Latest EPOXI findings on Comet Hartley 2 published

Latest EPOXI findings on Comet Hartley 2 published - Phys.org

The study notes that another EPOXI discovery is that on the knobby ends of Hartley 2, particularly the smaller end, the surface terrain is ...

Comet 103P/Hartley (Hartley 2) - NASA Science

Called hyperactive by the EPOXI mission, comet Hartley 2 spins around one axis, while tumbling around another one. Comet Hartley's core is also not uniform, but ...

Hyperactive Hartley 2 has a split history - Phys.org

The latest analysis of data from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft shows that comet 103P/Hartley 2 is hyperactive in terms of the material it spews out.

The Hyperactivity and Dust Composition of the Comet Hartley 2 | News

In November of 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission completed a flyby of the short-period comet 103P/Hartley 2. This comet has a 'hyperactive' nucleus ...

103P/Hartley - Wikipedia

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.

EPOXI Finds Hartley 2 Is a Hyperactive Comet - SpaceNews

Comet Hartley 2's hyperactive state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in this week's issue of the ...

EPOXI at Comet Hartley 2 - Science

Understanding how comets work—what drives their activity—is crucial to the use of comets in studying the early solar system. EPOXI (Extrasolar Planet ...

Hartley 2: The 'Weird' Comet - Space.com

The comet was discovered in 1986 and received a visit from a NASA mission, Epoxi, in 2010. It is expected to return in April 2017. Although the ...

EPOXI finds Hartley 2 is a hyperactive comet - ScienceDaily

Hartley 2's hyperactive state, as studied by NASA's EPOXI mission, is detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science by an ...

The nucleus of 103P/Hartley 2, target of the EPOXI mission

Context. 103P/Hartley 2 was selected as the target comet for the Deep Impact extended mission, EPOXI, in October 2007. There have been no direct optical ...

Researchers gain new insights into Comet Hartley 2

These findings, as well as information gleaned from a recent NASA EPOXI spacecraft flyby of Comet 103P/Hartley 2, are expected to offer new ...

(PDF) EPOXI at comet hartley 2 - ResearchGate

Abstract and Figures ; EPOXI at Comet Hartley 2 ; Michael F. A'Hearn,. 1 ; *Michael J. S. Belton,. 2 ; W. Alan Delamere,. 3 ; Lori M. Feaga,. 1.

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.

Comet Hartley 2 is tumbling, at a changing rate - EarthSky

These findings, as well as information gleaned from a recent NASA EPOXI spacecraft flyby of Comet 103P/Hartley 2, are expected to offer new ...

EPOXI: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Observations from a Worldwide ...

Welcome to the new version of CaltechAUTHORS. ... The research leading to these results has ... Publisher: American Astronomical Society; Published in ...

The nucleus of 103P/Hartley 2, target of the EPOXI mission

Results. We recovered the comet near the expected position, with a magnitude of mR = 23.74 ± 0.06 at the first epoch. The comet had no ...

Comet Hartley 2 in hyperactive class of its own: CO 2 jets confirmed ...

The comet was visited last fall by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft during its EPOXI mission. The EPOXI science team's new, in-depth analysis of ...

NASA - EPOXI Mission

After the Hartley 2 flyby there was not sufficient fuel remaining to go to any other comets. The only target reachable with our remaining fuel is the Near Earth ...

Hyperactivity and Dust Composition of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 During ...

Short-period comet 103P/Hartley 2 (103P) was the flyby target of the Deep Impact eXtended Investigation on 2010 November 4 UT. This comet has a ...

Next stop: Hartley 2 | Astronomy.com

NASA has given a team of scientists from the University of Maryland the green light to fly the Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet Hartley 2 on a two-part extended ...