... Horner and Wyn Evans , at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and Mark Bailey and David Asher , at the Armagh Observatory, have provided new insight into the links between comets and asteroids in the outer solar system and their dynamical evolution ...
... is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive ... Comet Holmes to undergo an outburst, in which an extra amount of material is ... wrote, "Comet Holmes continues to be one of the most amazing and fascinating comets ...
... comet moves into the inner solar system, this is heated by the Sun, and the ices ... Comets generally have at least two tails - one consisting of dust that has been ... Halley's comet is undoubtably the most famous comet that graces our skies. ...
... comets, their dynamical transfer from the Oort cloud and other reservoirs into short ... comets, or by strong time-dependence in the parabolic flux a capture-time ago (e.g ...
... Virtually all observed Halley-type comets and nearly half of observed Jupiter-family comets come from the Oort cloud, and initially (4.5 Gyr ago) from orbits concentrated near the outer planetary region. ...
... At its current apparition, the comet has split further into about sixty pieces, and some of the fragments are themselves breaking apart; the comet is literally disintegrating before our eyes. ...
... COMET: LINEAR BLOWN APART ------------------------------------ Astronomers report ... Comet LINEAR was thought to be a Near-Earth Asteroid , but observations soon showed ...