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Ernesto Guido

Meteorites Found in Africa From First Predicted Asteroid Hit - 0 views

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    Asteroid 2008 TC3 hit the scene - literally? This was the first asteroid that was predicted --and predicted correctly -- to to impact the Earth
Ernesto Guido

NASA - The Impact and Recovery of Asteroid 2008 TC3 - 0 views

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    The Impact and Recovery of Asteroid 2008 TC3.\nNASA detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. The Near-Earth Object Observation Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers, characterizes and computes trajectories for these objects to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. \n\n
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    Live Chat With NASA's Asteroid Trackers: The live event will air on the "NASAJPL" channel available on Ustream TV at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl on March 25 at 4:30 p.m. PDT (7:30 p.m. EDT and 23:30 UTC).
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    For more information about 2008 TC3 event see also: http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2009/02/2008-tc3-fragments-recovered.html
Ernesto Guido

Comets and asteroids news - 0 views

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    Latest news and information about comets and asteroids
Ernesto Guido

Asteroid Juno Grabs the Spotlight - 0 views

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    Toward the end of September, the sun will turn a spotlight on the asteroid Juno, giving that bulky lump of rock a rare featured cameo in the night sky.
Ernesto Guido

Comet Holmes produced mini-comets - 0 views

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    The outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes was so violent that it blew huge chunks of the comet's surface clean off, according to a new analysis of images taken in November 2007.
Ernesto Guido

Jupiter captured comet for 12 years in mid-20th Century - 0 views

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    Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was captured as a temporary moon of Jupiter in the mid-20th century and remained trapped in an irregular orbit for about twelve years.
Ernesto Guido

Giant planet holds comets hostage - 0 views

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    Jupiter has been caught 'kidnapping' comets when they venture too close, forcing them to become temporary satellites of the great planet before they are slingshot away or spiral into Jupiter, according to new data presented at this week's European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) in Potsdam, Germany.
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Discovery: C/2009 R1 (McNAUGHT) - 0 views

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    IAU Circular nr.9071, issued on 2009, Sep. 10, announces the discovery of a new comet by R. H. McNaught, named C/2009 R1 (McNAUGHT). This comet may reach magnitude 5 at the end of June 2010, but the elongation will be very small (only 18 degree on June 27, 2010) and so the observing conditions.
Ernesto Guido

McNaught Bags His 50th Comet - 0 views

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    McNaught has just discovered his 50th comet. He spotted it, as he does most often these days, on images taken with the 20-inch (0.5-meter) Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
Ernesto Guido

Reassessing the Source of Long-Period Comets - 0 views

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    We present numerical simulations to model the production of observable long-period comets (LPCs) from the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of icy bodies surrounding the Sun. We show that inner Oort Cloud objects can penetrate Jupiter's orbit via a largely unexplored dynamical pathway, and they are an important, if not the dominant, source of known LPCs.
Ernesto Guido

2009 Comet Awards Announced - 0 views

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    The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) -- operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) -- has announced the recipients of the 2009 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets by amateurs during the calendar year ending June 11.
Ernesto Guido

Five Amateurs Win Comet Prize - 0 views

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    The 2009 Edgar Wilson Award honors amateur astronomers who discovered five different comets in the last 12 months, proving that backyard comet hunting still thrives in this age of automated professional sky patrols.
Ernesto Guido

Arxiv - Orbital Elements of Comet C/1490 Y1 and the Quadrantid shower - 0 views

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    The Quadrantid shower, one of the most intense showers, has been observed at the beginning of January each year. However, the origin of the meteors is still unknown. It was Hasegawa (1979) who first suggested comet C/1490 Y1 to be the likely origin of the shower based on the historical records of East Asia.
Ernesto Guido

Arxiv - Continuous Monitoring of Comet Holmes from Before the 2007 Outburst - 0 views

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    The outburst and subsequent brightness evolution of Comet 17P/Holmes has been observed using the MMT Observatory's All-Sky Camera (Pickering 2006) on Mt. Hopkins near Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Ernesto Guido

Three new comets discovered - 0 views

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    Three new comets have been discovered in the last few days.....
Ernesto Guido

New Impact on Jupiter? - 0 views

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    The story of the possible new impact on Jupiter
Ernesto Guido

Arxiv - Asteroids Were Born Big - 0 views

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    How big were the first planetesimals? We attempt to answer this question by conducting coagulation simulations in which the planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and form larger bodies and planetary embryos
Ernesto Guido

A Cometary Closeup for NExT - 0 views

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    Tau Zero journalist Larry Klaes looks at the NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) mission, which gives us a second crack at observing comet Tempel
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