Realtime World - Comets & Asteroids
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My Astronomy Event Calendar: http://calendar.yahoo.com/quarkcsj
Space Weather.com: http://www.spaceweather.com/
Asteroid/Comet Conection: http://hohmanntransfer.com/
Space Calendar: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
CalSKY Sky Calendar: http://www.calsky.com
My Astronomy Pics: http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblog/astroblog.asp?UserID=54
Ephemerides and Orbital Elements: For Comet and Asteroid positions
Near Earth Object Dynamic Site: For Asteroid info
NASA Near Earth Object Program: For Asteroids and Comets info
Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service: Create an Ephemeris list
MPC Minor Planet Checker: To verify objects in a field
ESO Online Digitized Sky Survey: To rule out objects in a field
The STScI Digitized Sky Survey: To rule out objects in a field
Example 1: What is That!?
Example 2: What is that Extra Star!?
MPC Everything you need to know!
Astronomical Headlines - New Comet Discoveries
For the Very Latest on Comets, Discovery and Magnitude.
Info on Current Visible Comets - Seiichi Yoshida
Yahoo Group Page.
Historical Deep Sky Object List JAVA Jupiter C/1999 S4 (LINEAR):
Latest Comet Photos and Information - Seiichi Yoshida
GDO Homepage
BAA, BAA Comets, Current Comets
Gary W. Kronk's Comets & Meteor Showers - Current Comets
Orbital Elements for Comets and Asteroids, for loading into planetarium-type programs.
Get the programs listed in the link above.
Other Astronomy Software.
My Astrophotos
My Soapbox
To show the positions of the moons at a different time,
edit the date in the text field then hit return to recalculate.
Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear
To the surprise and delight of astronomers, the Hubble telescope discovered a small armada of "mini-comets" left behind from what some scientists had prematurely thought was a total disintegration of the explosive Comet LINEAR. In one observation, Hubble's powerful vision has settled the fate of the mysteriously vanished solid nucleus of Comet LINEAR, which was reported "missing in action" following its passage around the Sun on July 26. Though comets have been known to break apart and vanish before, for the first time astronomers are getting a close-up view of the dismantling of a comet's nucleus due to warming by the Sun. The results support the popular theory that comet nuclei are really made up of a cluster of smaller icy bodies called "cometesimals."
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2000/27/index.html
