Tag: comet
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#MorningMonarchy: September 17, 2019
Structural integrity, alien documentaries and the latest in corporate fast food mascot dating apps + this day in history w/the release of ‘Use Your Illusion’ and our song of the day by Stereolab on your Morning Monarchy for September 17, 2019.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 12, 2016
Laptop tape, wi-spy and touching robots + this day in history w/Civil War and our song of the day by Starwalker on your Morning Monarchy for April 12, 2016.
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Historic! Europe’s Philae Probe Lands on Comet 317M Miles Away
from nbcnews.com: After a suspense-packed, seven-hour descent, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander made an unprecedented touchdown on the surface of a comet Wednesday — marking the high point of a $1.3 billion, 10-year mission. Cheers erupted as the confirming signals were received at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, at 11:03 a.m.…
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Probe Makes Space History With Rendezvous With Comet
from spacedaily.com: The space probe Rosetta made a historic rendezvous with a comet on Wednesday, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. “We’re at the comet,” Rosetta’s flight operations manager, Sylvain Lodiot, declared in a webcast from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. It marks the first…
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Comet ISON: Will the Government Shutdown Ruin NASA’s Big Chance?
from policymic.com: On October 1, the comet ISON will pass near Mars, where monitoring equipment can gain more information on what could be the comet of the century. As long as the coincidental government shutdown causing the furlough of nearly the entire workforce of NASA doesn’t interrupt these observations, that is.
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Icarus Comet ISON Pix
Hubble Space Telescope captured images on April 10 of Comet ISON. ISON, is classified, an Icarus or Sungrazing Comet because of its close distance at perihelion to the Sun. On November 28th, ISON will be 700,000 miles from the Sun. The April 10th image taken as ISON hurtled towards inner solar system just within orbit…
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ScienceCasts: Comet of the Century
NASA Science informa- tive four minute video, considers prospects for light show in November by Comet ISON as it nears Sun. “Astronomers are keeping a close eye on a newly-discovered Comet ISON, which could become visible in broad daylight later this year when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun,” informs You Tube caption. …
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Comet PANSTARRS En Route To Andromeda Galaxy Encounter
Bob King provides tips in Universe Today article for best viewing of Comet PANNSTARRS in the next week. “Get ready for an comet encounter of the extragalactic kind. In less than a week, Comet PANSTARRS will slide by the Andromeda Galaxy, the brightest galaxy visible in northern hemisphere skies. On and around that date, you’ll…
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Sunset Comet Pan-STARRS
Comet Pan-STARRS has survived its encounter with the sun and is now emerging from twilight in the sunset skies of the northern hemisphere.
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Comet PANNSTARRS: How To See It
Universe Today provides great guide to viewing Comet PanStarrs. Writer David Dickinson describes what to expect this month: “After gaining 15-20° degrees of elevation from our northern hemisphere vantage point, Comet PanSTARRS will then begin running roughly parallel to the western horizon on each successive evening for mid-northern latitude observers. This first half of March…
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Comet Pan-STARRS Visible In Northern Hemisphere March 8
Two comets are expected to put on a naked-eye spectacle for sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere.
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New Comet Might Blaze Brighter Than Full Moon
A new comet has been discovered that is predicted to blaze incredibly brilliantly in the skies during late 2013.
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astronomycast revisits 1908 tunguska blast
The June 30, 1908 Tunguska blast remains an unexplained mystery. Universe Today reports Astronomycast responded to requests by devoting episode 243 to the Tunguska event. The speculations are varied as to what happened in Siberia, over a hundred yeas ago. Explanations include the reasonable such as an asteroid or comet to Tesla test firing an…
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Elenin = 11-9
The Comet Elenin mystery continues to be a story that keeps on giving! A swirling controversy and veritable cottage industry has grown from the name, Elenin.
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Perseids Coming Attraction By Meteorwatch 2011
A coming attraction to your night sky in the northern hemisphere are Perseids. “The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle.