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Where comets go to die

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Hubble Captures Details of Distant Comet ISON

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Using many instruments to track a comet

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In 16 years of data observations, the Solar Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO) — a joint European Space Agency and NASA mission — – made an unexpected claim for fame: the sighting of new comets at an alarming rate. SOHO has spotted over 2100 comets, mo…

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Space, Uncategorized

NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return

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2-timing spacecraft has date with another comet

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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine’s Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.
Stardust will approach to within 124…

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Stardust NExT set to meet its second comet

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Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine’s Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second.
It’s been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the orbit of Mars, capturing a thimbleful of co…

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SOHO spots 2,000th comet

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As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on December 26, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) discovered its 2000th comet.
Drawing on he…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Space

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