Comet News
August 17, 2009
NASA Researchers discover glycine in comet
Researches confirm presence of amino acid returned from
dust collected from Comet Wild 2 with the Stardust spacecraft.
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February 9, 2009
Comet Lulin brightens to naked-eye visibility
The comet makes its closest approach to Earth (0.41 AU) on Feb. 24, 2009
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November 2, 2007
Exploding comet astounds astronomers
Comet Holmes, a dim comet visible only in telescopes, unexpectedly brightened in the past couple of weeks and is now visible to the naked eye.
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January 13, 2007
Brightest comet in 40 years
Comet McNaught, discovered last year, is continuing to brighten
and is now visible to viewers in the southen hemisphere.
May 2006
Mini-Comets Flies past Earth
A cometary "string-of-pearls" flew past Earth in May 2006 giving
astronomers a fantastic view of a dying comet.
NASA news
March 13, 2006
Stardust Samples Show Evidence of Fire, Ice
Scientists find presence of minerals that formed in high temperatures in the comet dust returned by NASA's Stardust mission. The presence of Olivine suggests that the material may have been formed near the center of the solar system, instead of outside the solar system, as previously believed.
NASA'S Stardust Mission
January 15, 2006
NASA's Stardust Mission Returns to Earth
After seven years in space, NASA's Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down at 5:10 a.m. Eastern time (3:10 a.m. Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
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