Comets
Stardust NExT Targets Valentines Day Encounter with Comet Tempel 1
[/caption] After a more than decade long journey of 6 billion kilometers, hopes are high for a celestial date in…
35 Days to STARDUST-NeXT Valentines Day Flyby of Comet Tempel 1
[/caption] 35 Days and Counting ! NASA’s re-purposed STARDUST- NeXT spacecraft is set to flyby Comet Tempel 1 at a…
SOHO Finds Its 2000th Comet
[/caption] From a NASA Press Release: As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New…
Asteroid Scheila Sprouts a Tail and Coma
[/caption] When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it turns out to be a comet, of course. Has this…
Fizzy Comet Hartley 2 is Throwing Snowballs
[/caption] As Jessica Sunshine said, Comet Hartley 2 might be the smallest of the five comets that our spacecraft have…
Dances With Comets – C/2010 V1 Ikeya Murakami
For those of you working on your Comet Hunter's certificates - or for those who just love these travelers from…
Hartley 2 in Motion: Stunning Morph Animation of Flyby Images
The folks from UnmannedSpaceflight.com have done it again. Daniel Machácek created this wonderful animation from just the five initial images…
First Close Images of Hartley 2: It’s a Peanut with Jets
[/caption] NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft came within 700 kilometers (435 miles) of Comet Hartley 2 at 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401…
Hartley 2 Spawns Meteor Shower
[/caption]The comet of the year for 2010 seems to be Hartley 2. Although this comet is receding from Earth now…
Watch Live Coverage of EPOXI’s Hartley 2 Encounter on Nov. 4
Watch live coverage of the EPOXI mission's close flyby of Comet Hartley 2. Live coverage begins on November 4, 2010…