... the brevity of beauty and life and general. Meanwhile, the Perseids are actually particles produced by the comet Swift-Tuttle, which has an orbit of 133 years. Humans have probably been observing Swift-Tuttle since...
... restructure space agencies, and military defence agencies, to make planetary defence a priority. The impacts left by fragments of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 hitting Jupiter in 1994 are a reminder of the danger faced by Earth (JPL/NASA/STScI) Developing...
...effect of the collision of fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet with Jupiter. They showed that the area of the resulting ... have already been carried out on many occasions to asteroids, comets and other bodies in the solar system. In such cases,...
... few decades to a few thousand years - lead to regional catastrophes. One of these occurred 12,900 years ago, when a comet nucleus a few kilometres in diameter exploded over North America. As a result of this explosion, the continent’s biosphere was...
...of possibilities for nanosat mission flybys and encounters of future comets. The inner Solar System is fairly easy to reach... flagship Rosetta mission took 10 years to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Such long mission durations are not...
...information, pictures, scientific data and experience collected in more than one year around the comet is revolutionizing the science of comets and our knowledge of the history of the Solar System,” he continued. Dr. Ferri will be joined in Jerusalem...