Comets

Asteroid Collision May Have Created Comet-like Object

[/caption] A strange comet-like object discovered on January 6, 2010 may actually be the result of an asteroid collision. Lincoln…

14 years ago

Comets Posing as Asteroids (or is the the other way around?)

[/caption] Asteroids are rocky bodies which belong between Mars and Jupiter. Comets are icy bodies that belong way out beyond…

14 years ago

Crescent Earth as Seen by Comet Chasing Spacecraft

Title this one "Rich Blue Crescent" (as opposed to Pale Blue Dot.) This spectacular image of our home planet was…

14 years ago

Deep Impact

[/caption] Deep Impact is the name of a NASA space mission whose primary objective was to study Comet Tempel 1…

15 years ago

Comet, Cometary Dust Formed in Different Parts of Solar System

Scientists studying the particles of comet dust brought to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft have uncovered a bit of a…

16 years ago