Comets

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Comets are a tougher act.

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He's found more than 140 comets.

Comets are very much like asteroids.

Nobody understands where comets come from!

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No one understands comets, they're a mystery.

But he found 140 comets without a telescope.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen.

She discovered or co discovered some comets, including periodic comets 38P Stephan Oterma and 39P Oterma, and quite a number of asteroids.

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We need a dedicated observatory that looks for comets.

He's found so many comets, they named a comet after him.

If checked, the comets near the Sun will have name labels attached. Comets vary in brightness in their orbits, so a faint magnitude is not effective in this case.

Prosperin was a famous calculator of orbits comets, planets, and their satellites.

This time, everyone was asking the question, where do comets come from?

The composition of some small TNOs could be similar to that of comets.

For most comets, the perihelion of their orbit lies outside the Earth's orbit.

He also participated in the third Disney Channel games on the Yellow Team (Comets).

Perrine co discovered the lost periodic comet 18D Perrine Mrkos and several other comets.

And we reached the sky , so we found it strongly guarded and filled with comets .

And we reached the sky , so we found it strongly guarded and filled with comets .

If we can find comets without a telescope, shouldn't we be able to find words?

Well, one man dared to penetrate the secrets of comets, and that was Isaac Newton.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley His Comets recorded Rock Around the Clock .

You'll notice that a lot of comets are named after people you never heard of, amateur astronomers?

The order of magnitude similarity in period requirement excludes comets from the calculation, but the combined mass of the comets turns out to be negligible compared to the other small Solar System bodies, so their inclusion would have little impact on the results.

Rosetta will also make a great contribution to understanding whether comets contributed to the beginnings of life on Earth.

Moreover, volatile light elements carried by comets may also have played an important role in forming the Earth's oceans and atmosphere.

The Subcommittee noted that near Earth objects were asteroids and comets with orbits that crossed the orbit of the planet Earth.

Blasted at point blank range by solar radiation, the sungrazer will likely become one of the finest comets in many years.

These comets release gas only when holes in this crust rotate toward the Sun, exposing the interior ice to the warming sunlight.

Over the past several years, astronomers have learned a great deal about asteroids and comets that strike the Earth at random intervals.

Comets are carriers of complex organic molecules, which, brought to Earth through impacts, perhaps played a role in the origin of life.

However, comets behave differently, due to their ejection of large amounts of volatile gas which then also reflect sunlight and may also fluoresce.

This work is carried out mainly in the Asteroids and Comets Department of the Institute by five scientists and, on average, two research students.