Showing posts with label Comet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comet. Show all posts
Friday, July 15, 2011

Astrophoto Friday - A Marvel in the Darkness

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Antonin Mrkos discovered seven comets. These photos of his brightest comet (1957 D) were taken in August 1957 with Palomar Observatory...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Asteroid 596 Scheila Becomes a Comet

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Over the weekend it was reported that main-belt asteroid 596 Scheila was experiencing a comet-like outburst. Solar system astronomers Mic...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Astrophoto Friday: Comet Arend Roland

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Comet Arend-Roland photographed April 26, 1957 with the 48-inch Palomar Schmidt telescope (now called the Samuel Oschin Telescope). For par...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Asteroid that Became a Comet and the Comet that Became an Asteroid

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Once in a while an asteroid comes along that changes things. On January 6, 2010 the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research team discovered a ...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Remembering Apollo, a Comet Crash & Eugene Shoemaker

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Yesterday, July 16th was the 40th anniversary of the liftoff of the Apollo 11 Mission. NPR had a wonderful story on the role of the USGS...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Palomar Transient Factory

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Unique Sky Survey Brings New Objects into Focus Partnership involves Caltech's Palomar Observatory and other world leaders in astronomy ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Shoemaker-Levy 9 Anniversary

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Fourteen years ago today began perhaps the biggest week of astronomy ever as the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began to slam into Jup...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Shattered Comet

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Two years ago this week Caltech astronomers were using the 200-inch Hale Telescope to observe the fractured Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Targeting a Comet

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On this day in 2004 NASA's Stardust mission encountered Comet Wild 2, taking detailed images . Before the mission's closest appro...