... about potentially threatening asteroids and comets to avoid false alarms in the ... for telescopic studies of asteroids and comets, laboratory investigations, and more ...
... 1 -- TUESDAY * Comet Giacobini-Zinner is still in good view in Capricornus just ... at about 9th magnitude (in reach of most amateur telescopes) with hints of a tail ... page 107, or at http://www.skypub.com/sights/comets/Giacobini/gz_1998.html ...
... editor and veteran comet observer John Bortle put the comet's magnitude at 8.2 and ... LINEAR the brightest comet in the sky, a shade brighter than Comet Giacobini-Zinner ...
... Comet Kowal 2 Perihelion (1.397 AU) Mar 02 - Asteroid 1998 BP26 Near-Earth Flyby (0.353 AU) Mar 02-04 - Workshop on Climate Variability and Water Resource Management in the Southwest, El Paso, Texas Mar 03-04 - JPL 10th Annual High-Tech Small Business ...
... We read all last week how there is in fact a comet headed towards Earth," Zanuck said, apparently confusing the fictional comet from his movie with a real asteroid that will miss the Earth. ...
... Oxygen, and Nitrogen =96 all crucial to life =96 are found in roughly the same proportions in comets and human= beings ... schedule, Galileo will transmit to Earth pictures and science information that were on the tail end of last week's schedule ...