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... 2001 November 12 . Is Mystery Object an Orphan Afterglow? ... SDSS , DOE , NSF , NASA . Explanation: What is that unusual object? ... Attributes of the object include that it has unusual colors , appears to be fading as months go by, and appears to be associated with a distant galaxy . ... A bit of caution might be merited, however, as the last well-publicized mystery object turned out not to be a new member of the astronomical zoo , but rather an unusual type of quasar . ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Is Mystery Object an Orphan Afterglow . ... 12.11.2001 . ... SDSS , DOE , NSF , NASA Explanation: What is that unusual object? ... Attributes of the object include that it has unusual colors , appears to be fading as months go by, and appears to be associated with a distant galaxy . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: orphan afterglow - mystery object . Publications with words: orphan afterglow - mystery object . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

... For a long time we've known that planets form and live around stars. ... When a star is born, any leftover gas and dust forms a disc around it, similar to Saturn's rings. Within this disc, small dust grains made of rock sometimes form. ... Now, for the first time ever astronomers have spotted solid grains in the gassy disc around a 'brown dwarf' an object that is neither a planet nor a star. ... Astronomers didn't expect to find these solid grains around brown dwarfs for a number of reasons. ...

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... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

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... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

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