... The Solar Wind . The first evidence for the solar wind came from comet tails . ... Comet Hale-Bopp of 1997 (here) has two distinct tails. ... It is not radial, as the comet has about 1/10 the speed of the solar wind.. ...
... are thousands of known asteroids and comets and undoubtedly many more unknown ones ... Most comets have highly elliptical orbits which spend most of their time in the ... T he distinction between comets and asteroids is somewhat controversial . ...
... will lower its velocity relative to that of Comet P/Wirtanen from 100 meters/second at 500,000 kilometers to a speed low enough to allow it to go into an elliptic polar orbit about the nucleus, using the images of the comet as it gets closer to fine-tune ...
... believes they have discovered a chain of impact craters in the central African country of Chad that suggests ancient Earth may have been hit by a large, fragmented comet or asteroid similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter in 1994 ...
... Kuiper Belt Objects . Hubble Detects Long-Sought Comet Population Beyond Neptune . ... light much like other primitive asteroids and comets in the out solar system, the ... Hubble Detection of Comet Nucleus . ...
... Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 . More about SL 9 . Open Issues. ... JPL's SL9 page . Comet and SL 9 tutorial from LANL . ... Was SL 9 deficient in water compared to most comets? ... Sun ... Small Bodies ... Halley .. ...
... 6,200-mile) flyby of Comet P/Honda-Mrhos-Pajdusakova on February 3, 1996 at about 21.00 GMT (approaching the nucleus along the tail) some 0.17 AU from the Sun , and a 14-million-kilometer (8.7-million-mile) passage of Comet P/Giacobini-Zinner on November ...
... centered on July 19, 1994, fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter ... the world spent anxious days watching the comet fragments smash into the atmosphere ...
... System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more ... Neptune . Pluto . Asteroids . Comets . Meteorites . History . People . ...