comet flyby
1comet — cometary /kom i ter ee/, cometic /keuh met ik/, cometical, adj. cometlike, adj. /kom it/, n. Astron. a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and… …
2Comet Hopper — (CHopper) Operator Under evaluation by NASA Major contractors UMD, Lockheed Martin, GSFC Mission type Lander Current destination Comet Wirtanen Orbital insertion date …
3Comet — This article is about the astronomical object. For other uses, see Comet (disambiguation). Comet Hale– …
4Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby — Conceptual artwork of the CRAF spacecraft The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to… …
5Comet nucleus — The nucleus of Comet Tempel 1. The nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, popularly termed a dirty snowball. A cometary nucleus is composed of rock, dust, and frozen gases. When heated by the Sun, the gases sublimate and produce an… …
6flyby — noun a) A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations. The upcoming flyby of Halleys comet is expected to provide new information on the nature of the comet. b) A low level flight of ceremonial nature, typically in connection… …
7Halley's Comet — For the video game, see Halley s Comet (video game). 1P/Halley (Halley s Comet) Halley s Comet on March 8, 1986 Discovery …
8Timeline of Solar System exploration — A timeline of Solar System exploration listed by date of spacecraft launch.Missions in italics are unfinished, i.e. have not yet been designated as successes or failures.1950s*1957 **Sputnik 1 4 October 1957 1st Earth Orbiter **Sputnik 2 3… …
9103P/Hartley — Photograph from close approach by EPOXI mission Discovery Discovered by: Malcolm Hartley Discovery date: 15 March 1986 Alternate designations …
10Tempel 1 — 9P/Tempel Composite of images of nucleus obtained by the Deep Impact impactor Discovery Discovered by Wilhelm Tempel …
