... object in the sky of Bondone’s ‘Adoration of the Magi’ was not the star of Bethlehem but “a portrait of Halley’s Comet during its 1301 apparition”. Indeed, the focus is on Western art, “where the tradition of representing astronomical phenomena...
...- the Moon, the planets, the asteroids and comets? Would these new lands be subject to appropriation and...Servadac, Voyages et Adventures a traverse le Monde Solaire (“Off on a Comet”), 1877. 2 See, e.g., Tsiolkovsky, K.E.: The Exploration of Cosmic ...
...in which DLR participated is the European Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in which development and operation of the.... Together with ESA, the first ever landing on a comet was performed on 12 November 2014. ESA’s unmanned Automated ...
... Kepler Space Telescope, the Rosetta mission to land on a comet, Japanese missions to the Moon, Indian mission to Mars, ..., are more and more at risk. Solar storms, asteroid and comet strikes, and orbital debris problems are all real threats we need ...
... near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets that pose a credible risk of Earth impact. The... Engineering, 78, 93-113. 16 Davis, A. M. (Ed.). (2005). Meteorites, Comets, and Planets: Treatise on Geochemistry (Vol. 1). Elsevier. 17 Shen, J....
...232C) or so. When NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft intentionally smashed into comet Tempel 1 on 4 July 2005, it expelled a cloud of material... to identify the ingredients that eventually produced planets, comets and other bodies in our solar system. What ...