comet

Hello, Thank you lady of the Light for your welcome. Wish I had found this forum many moons ago as it covers most things which have always interested me, but more especially for the past 15 years or so. I am new to forums so will probably do this all wrong but I have a pic to share with you...

Comet Ison may be a like a ship? If you watch the video below, it don't look like a comet to me. So I went here: fits2web image viewer (Ison 130430 WFC3 F606W)' ...where the image of Ison is available for download and I did what was done in the video to see what happens, here are the...

Interesting video on the comet know as Elenin:

4 May 2011 - Comet Elenin: Preview of a Coming Attraction You may have heard the news: Comet Elenin is coming to the inner-solar system this fall. More...

15 Feb 2011 - NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. More...

From this report and information from: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin&orb=1 If I understand it right, It shows its trajectory to be closest to earth on 16th and 17 of October 2011 at 0.24 AU Physical Parameter Table Parameter Symbol Value Units Sigma Reference Notes comet...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) – After a 2.5-year journey across the solar system, the US space probe Epoxi readied to swing by comet Hartley 2 for an up-close study of its icy, volatile surface, NASA said Wednesday. "This flyby will mark the fifth time in history that a spacecraft has been...

Lulin comet reached closest distance to earth Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Lulin comet, which in July 2007 in Taiwan was discovered today reached its smallest distance from the earth: 61 million kilometers. The green comet (C/2007 N3 officially called) is from a dark place just observation...